"Nude" Matisse appreciated by almost $ 50 million

At Christie's, too, there were "naked" records. Top-lot auction "Impressionist and Modern Art" was a sculpture by Henri Matisse's "Nude female figure from behind IV» in 1956, which went under the auction for a record for the works of the author of the sum - $ 48, 802, 500, almost twice the lower bar of the provisional evaluation. Lot was in Gagosian gallery collection. The monumental bronze relief works by Henri Matisse, which is part of a series of four "had his back to the audience," is widely recognized as the greatest achievement of the twentieth century modernist sculpture. The second value of the top-lot auction was painting by Juan Gris "Violin and Guitar" in 1913. Estimé at $ 18-25 million, cubist painting went under the hammer for a record for the artist's works in the amount of $ 28 642 500. This work was unanimously recognized by art critics as one of the most outstanding works of this direction from all that appeared at auction in recent years. Also, the web is one of my favorite paintings by the artist, Gris wrote it in the summer of 1913 in the south of France during one of the most productive periods of his work. Of the 13 paintings he created at that time, that is what most fully combines the perfection of shapes, colors and ideas. Total revenue from sales at the auction was $ 231,439,500.