Yesterday it became known, and it sounds unbelievable but it is true: they were paid 500 million dollars for two contemporary art (or rather, the twentieth century) sold recently. The sale took place a few months ago but decided to make it public only now. And who could pay that kind of money? One of the most powerful people in the world of finance in the United States, the American Kenneth Griffin, investor born in Florida, 47, founder of Citadel LLC (hedge fund based in Chicago) and owner of a personal fortune estimated at 7,400 million. Thus, Griffin made the purchase of works of art-within category category “Contemporary” -. Most expensive in history
The two works are Interchange (1955) American abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning, and Number 17A (1948), Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionist also the same country. That is, the School of New York is trading at exorbitant prices. De Kooning cost 300 million, while the cost Pollock 200.
So, De Kooning ranks as the most expensive painting in history with Nafea Faaa Ipoipo Gauguin, who reached that price a year ago
Griffin had already armed stir in the art world a year ago, due to another purchase. Abstraktes Bild , a painting German Gerard Richter for which it paid $ 46 million. The sale was made at Sotheby’s in London after a struggle between the buyer and the seller, and is the world’s highest price paid for a work by a living artist. And he paid Griffin, who also had the kind gesture of donating the last Dec. 40 million to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. It was considered one of the largest donations ever made to that institution. He also donated $ 120 million to Harvard University, an institution where he studied and began to make his fortune there, in his room a student, got him installed a satellite dish through which he was able to continue their investments and start building the empire.
the works acquired now yielded to the art Institute of Chicago, where they are exhibited together.
Griffin 20s next arming his art collection ago. For 12 years – until last year with his former wife, Anne Dias Griffin, another fund manager.
Despite having such an important collection and to make such purchases, the investor manifests skeptical the world art market: the view that is full of speculators. He said a few days after it was auctioned last November a painting by Amedeo Modigliani, Nu couche , for 170.4 million dollars. Bought a Chinese collector Liu Yiqian, credit card! Now become a millionaire investor, however Liu started as a taxi driver and hawker. He said he bought the painting … Modigliani card to collect points.
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