"The picture (blue star)" abstractionist Joan Miró went under the hammer Bashny.Net

«Painting (Blue Star)" abstractionist Joan Miró went under the hammer at London auction Sotheby's on Tuesday for 23, 6 million pounds, setting a new record price for the artist. Cloth and exceeded the upper limit of the estimate of 20 million pounds. The previous record for a work of Miro was established just a few months ago in London, when "Painting-Poem" was sold to an unknown buyer for 16, 8 million pounds at auction Christie's. The "Picture (Blue Star)" and surpassed his own achievement: only in 2007 she went to auction in Paris for the price three times lower than for 11, 6 million euros (8, 3 million pounds). Miro exhibition in the framework of bidding works of Impressionist and Modern, is the most expensive work of art sold at Sotheby's in this year. The painting by the Spanish artist was written in 1927, Miro and he considered her one of the most important in his work. It belongs to the so-called cycle of paintings, dreams, works with the characteristic blue palette, which later influenced by Yves Klein and Mark Rothko.