The painting of Amedeo Modigliani lying naked , considered the most important Italian artist, won the night before last by 170.4 million dollars at Christie’s in New York, and became the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction, after The Women of Algiers , Pablo Picasso, who in May this year topped in the same house for over nine million. Amid loud applause, and after nine minutes of a feverish auction seven buyers claimed the canvas Liu Yiqian, a Chinese taxi driver became billionaire collector, who participated by phone. Already thinking about moving to Shanghai naked.
The owner of the table, Laura Mattioli Rossi, daughter of Italian collector Gianni Mattioli-, had received a guarantee of at least $ 100 million by 1917 Modigliani 1918 painting tenth to reach a price of nine digits (Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti and Edvard Munch, Picasso besides, complete the first section of the list). Just before the auction, Christie’s had announced that a third partner to share the risk appeared-and profits-above the minimum price of this work knew a scandal in the Parisian gallery Berthe Weill, and the police had ordered such removal.
The auction Monday in the Big Apple, for its 34 lots dedicated to “the Muses” as the theme, totaled 491.4 million. The sale of the nude in question broke the record for Modigliani (sculpture Tête was auctioned in November 2014 for 70.7 million dollars), but it was not the only one minute later, he recorded another extraordinary mark when Nurse , the master of pop art Roy Lichtenstein, sold for 95.37 million dollars.
According to experts, the high figures come from the concern of some Collectors about the exorbitant prices of the works of contemporary art and art, which has led to more prudent to take refuge in buying great masters of earlier periods. And the naked bodies of Modigliani often considered the greatest “trophy art” of the twentieth century, analyzed yesterday The New York Times.
Artworks sold for more than nine figures
The Women of Algiers
Picasso. In May, it sold for 179.4 million dollars
Nude lying
Modigliani. Three studies of Lucien Freud
Francis Bacon was sold for 170.4 million.
. It reached 142 million in 2013.
The man pointing
Giacometti. They paid for the sculpture 141.2.
The Scream
Munch. In 2010, it costs 119.9.
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