De Kooning portrayal sole for record $66.3 million
Willem de Kooning’s “Untitled XXV” was sole late Tuesday during Christie’s in New York for $66.3 million, a record for a work by a epitome artist and for post-war contemporary art.
The commanding work, that measures 7 by 6.5 feet (2 x 2.2 meters), was embellished by a Dutch-American artist in 1977 and is emblematic of a energetic, multicolor brush strokes he used in his work of a midst 1970s.
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Christie’s auction residence primarily valued “Untitled XXV” during $40 million (37 million euros). When a same portrayal was auctioned 10 years ago it went for $27.1, a record during a time. The bid was placed in a phone call, and a buyer’s temperament was not revealed.
#AuctionRecord: Willem de Kooning’s “Untitled XXV” just
sold for $66,327,500 environment a new auction
record for a artist #deKooning pic.twitter.com/AoMc1JNqVu— Christie’s (@ChristiesInc) November 16, 2016
New York’s tumble auction deteriorate kicked off this week with an array of masterpieces, sketch bidders from around a universe during Christie’s and Sotheby’s auction houses. Late Monday Edvard Munch’s “Girls on a Bridge” sole for $54.5 million, a second-highest auction cost paid for a work by a Norwegian painter, Sotheby’s said.
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There’s no necessity of bidders in a United States, Paris, London — and increasingly Asia, with flourishing Chinese fortunes spent on internationally famous works during both vital auction houses.
The sales will offer as a barometer of a tellurian art market, that did good during this year’s open auctions notwithstanding a delayed 2015.
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