"View of the shelter and the chapel at Saint-Remy" sold for £ 10, 1 million

paintings by Vincent Van Gogh's "View of the shelter and the chapel at Saint-Remy" from the collection of film star Elizabeth Taylor sold for £ 10, 1 million at the auction house Christie's. On the eve of the auction experts evaluated the canvas in the £ 5- £ 7 million. In 1963, this wonderful autumn landscape was purchased as a gift daughter of her father, a famous art dealer Francis Taylor. Over the last twenty years the picture has never appeared in public. Another 35 works from the collection of Mrs. Taylor will be on display at the auction Christie's, which will be held on February 8. Total revenue at the end of yesterday's evening auction Christie's «Impressionist and Modern Art" and "Art of Surrealism" was £ 134 million. The undisputed favorite of the auction was a sculpture of Henry Moore "reclining figure: Festival", has found a buyer for £ 19 million, setting a new record price on Moore's work. By the way, soon in the museums of the Moscow Kremlin will host an exhibition "Henry Moore and the Classic Canon of Modern Sculpture." Also, it sets a record "The picture-poem (" The body of my dark-haired woman, because I love her as a kitten dressed in light green green hail, it does not matter ")" brush Joan Miro sold for £ 16 million. The painting of Juan Gris' Book ", written in Paris in the period from late 1914 to the beginning of 1915, sold for £ 10 million.