Jean-Michel Basquiat was the most expensive artist of modern times

Outcome evening auction Christie's «postwar and contemporary art", held February 13 to £ 81, 6 million ($ 127, 7 million). The top lot of the evening was the canvas by Jean-Michel Basquiat "Protection Museum (Broadway crash)," which was sold for £ 9, 3 million in the evaluation from £ 7 to £ 9 million. As a world masterpiece painting was created in 1983, during the period universal acceptance of the artist on the international art scene. This outstanding large-scale work embodies all that distinguishes the best works of Basquiat - a combination of words and graffiti. "Abstract Painting" (2004) by Gerhard Richter sold for £ 8, 44 million. The magnificent abstract painting and one of the most important examples of the artist's last years shows an incredibly honed skills of Richter, which plays its full color abstraction beginning of the 1990s, including a series of four paintings devoted to Bach. Peter Doig canvas "Architect house in a hollow" (1991) was sold for £ 7, 65 million, setting a new world record for the value of the artist at auction. Having been in the past in the Saatchi collection, this grand masterpiece refers to the heyday of creativity Doig. The painting shows a house located in Toronto, the Canadian architect Eberhard Zidler. The work of Francis Bacon "The man in the blue VI» (1954) was sold by auction for £ 4, 97 million. As the penultimate in a series of Bacon's "man in blue" in 1954, this painting - it is exciting and deeply insightful portrait of post-war Europe. Cloth David Hockney "The Great Pyramid of Giza and the head of the statue from Thebes" was sold for £ 3 51 million, the second highest price for the artist's works at auction. A unique and iconic creative work of David Hockney was written by him during undertaken in 1963 at the age of twenty-six years of trips to Egypt. The work of Allen Jones called "tables, chairs, a hanger," went under the hammer for £ 2, 16 million, setting a new record price for the artist's works. This made 1969 a mixed composition of the three sculptures is one of the peaks of creativity Jones. Nowadays, it is the same emotions as in the years of its establishment, striking and pleasing at the same time. Along with David Hockney, Allen Jones he was one of the English artists of the sixties, not feared for his work to challenge society, at the same time leading the spectator frank dialogue about the nature of human sexuality. The work by Damien Hirst, "Far from the herd (by)" was sold for £ 1 94 million. It is placed in two containers formaldegidovym solution and sawn in half a sheep carcass. For £ 1, 27 million was sold "Portrait 62" hand Michelangelo Pistoletto, doubling the previous record price. A selection of works from the collection of Mrs. Ingvild Goetz was sold for £ 4 28 million, three times the estimate lower bar. Top lot was the section written in 1997 by Christopher Voula painting titled "Mad Cow", sold for £ 2 28 million. The proceeds from the sale of works will support the charitable initiatives of Ms. Goetz.