ARTE CONTEMPORANEA

SOTHEBY’S. Londra, 15 febbraio 2012

La Evening Sale ha totalizzato 50,688,450 GBP ($ 79.672.106/euro 60.719.674) con una percentuale di venduto altissima, pari a 90.5 % by lot e 94.6% by value. Acquirenti da oltre 20 paesi hanno partecipato all’asta. 9 opere sono state vendute ad oltre 1 milione di sterline e 21 lotti sono stati aggiudicati ad oltre 1 milione di dollari. 2 nuovi Record sono stati stabiliti per A. R. Penck e Albert Oehlen Per quanto riguarda l’arte italiana va segnalato l’ottimo risultato realizzato da Nero Plastica di Albero Burri, un’importante plastica nera vulcanizzata del 1965 che da una stima di £ 800.000- 1.200.000 è andato venduto, raddoppiando le stime iniziali, a £ 2.057.250 (euro 2.464.379).

Cheyenne Westphal, Sotheby’s Chairman of Contemporary Art Europe, ha commentato: “We’re extremely pleased with the results of tonight’s sale and the above-estimate total of £50 million which we achieved. We witnessed a huge depth of international bidding right across the auction, with buyers coming from no fewer than 20 countries. Gerhard Richter once again dominated, with all six of his works selling for an aggregate sum of £17.6 million, above the combined estimate for the group of £14.8 million, with four of the pieces falling within the top-ten selling works in the sale” Commentando la performance della sezione dedicata alla British Art, Oliver Barker, Deputy Chairman Sotheby’s Europe and Senior International Specialist, Contemporary Art, ha dichiarato: “British Art performed very well this evening. We are delighted with the prices achieved for Lucian Freud’s ‘Lord Goodman’ and ‘Gorse Sprig’ works, and the record for an Egyptian palette series work by Bridget Riley and the sterling record for a work by Howard Hodgkin.”

TOP TEN:

Lotto 52
£4,857,250 ($7,634,626) (€5,818,498)
£3,000,000 – 4,000,000 Private Collector
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (768-4), 1992, oil on canvas, 200 by 160cm.

Lotto 13
£4,297,250 ($6,754,418) (€5,147,674)
£2,000,000 – 3,000,000 Private European
Gerhard Richter, Ice (Eis), 1981, oil on canvas, 70 by 100cm.

Lotto 23
£4,073,250 ($6,402,334) (€4,879,345)
£3,000,000 – 4,000,000 Anonymous
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Orange Sports Figure, 1982, acrylic, oil stick and spray paint on canvas, 152.4 by 121.9cm.

Lotto 8
£4,073,250 ($6,402,334) (€4,879,345)
£2,500,000 – 3,500,000 Private European
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (rot), 743-1, 1991, oil on canvas, 200 by 140cm.

Lotto 14
£3,065,250 ($4,817,960) (€3,671,862)
£2,000,000 – 3,000,000 Private European
Gerhard Richter, Kind (Child), 1989, oil on canvas, 97 by 92cm.

Lotto 10
£2,057,250 ($3,233,586) (€2,464,379)
£800,000 – 1,200,000 Trade
Alberto Burri, Nero Plastica, 1965, burned plastic on canvas, 101.6 by 76.9cm

Lotto 17
£1,833,250 ($2,881,502) (€2,196,049)
£500,000 – 700,000 Private Asian
Zao Wou-ki, 28.12.99, 1999, oil on canvas, 114 x 146cm.

Lotto 42
£1,833,250 ($2,881,502) (€2,196,049)
£1,800,000 – 2,500,000 Private European
Francis Bacon, Figure with Monkey, 1951, oil on canvas, 66 by 56cm.

Lotto 16
£1,609,250 ($2,529,419) (€1,927,720)
£600,000 – 800,000 Private Asian
Zao Wou-ki, 10.01.91, 1991, oil on canvas, 130 x 162cm.

Lotto 9
£937,250 ($1,473,170) (€1,122,731)
£450,000 – 650,000 Anonymous
Yves Klein, ANT 59, 1960, pigment in synthetic resin on paper laid down on canvas, 76 by 40.3cm.

Lotto 28
£937,250 ($1,473,170) (€1,122,731)
£600,000 – 800,000 Private European
Roy Lichtenstein, Nude in an Apartment, 1996, acrylic on paper collage, printed paper collage, tape and pencil on board, 82.6 by 71.1cm.

Artists Records:

LOT 54
A. R. PENCK
METHODE, FERTIGZUWERDEN
ESTIMATE £90,000-120,000
Sold for £325,250 / $511,228
Previous record: £252,500

LOT 59
ALBERT OEHLEN
UNTITLED
ESTIMATE £200,000-300,000
Sold for £445,250 / $699,844
Previous record: £434,364 / $698,500
Record for a Gerhard Richter landscape

LOT 13
GERHARD RICHTER
EIS (ICE)
ESTIMATE £2,000,000-3,000,000
Sold for £4,297,250 / $6,754,418
Previous record: £2,596,000
Record for a Bridget Riley ‘Egyptian Series’ work

LOT 35
BRIDGET RILEY
TABRIZ
ESTIMATE £250,000-350,000
Sold for £457,250 / $718,706
Previous record: £367,200
Record for the artist in sterling only

LOT 45
HOWARD HODGKIN
GOSSIP
ESTIMATE £250,000-350,000
Sold for £481,250 / $756,429
Previous record: £402,480 / $792,000