Art auction – Picasso painting auctioned for record price – Süddeutsche.de

• The Picasso painting “Les Femmes d’Alger” changes at an auction in New York for $ 179.4 million (about 160 million euros) to owner. This makes it the most expensive ever auctioned paintings in the world.
• The sale of the sculpture “pointing man” by Alberto Giacometti for $ 141.3 million (about 127 million euros) represents a new record.

The buyer is unknown

A painting by Pablo Picasso became the most expensive ever auctioned picture of the world. The oil painting created in 1955 “Les Femmes d’Alger” scored at the start of the New York spring auctions in the early hours of Tuesday, including call premium around $ 179.4 million (about 160 million euros) after the hammer had been dropped around 160 million dollars.

Who posted the picture that had the experts of the auction house Christie’s on “in the region of 140 million dollars,” estimated selling, initially was not known

The most expensive paintings. – the triptych “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” by Francis Bacon – had also provided $ 142.4 million at Christie’s in New York about a half years ago

Also, the record for the most expensive ever auctioned at auction sculpture. ever fell: Alberto Giacometti “pointing Man” scored including call premium around $ 141.3 million – and thus around 35 million dollars more than the most expensive plastic, Giacomettos “Walking Man”. She had brought $ 104,300,000 in London five years ago. Christie’s had the “Pointing man” previously estimated at around 130 million dollars. Who bought the thin bronze figure, initially was not known.

From the factory, there are 15 versions

The Picasso image sparked at the auction an approximately twelve-minute bidding battle of. More than 30 bids were submitted until auctioneer and Christie’s chief Jussi Pylkkanen finally a telephone bidder was awarded the contract. “Les Femmes d’Alger” is about a one and a half feet tall, brightly colored, painted in a mixture of abstract and realistic, showing four bare-breasted women. It solves the “Act with green leaves and bust” from a valuable Picasso paintings. The work was auctioned in 2010 for $ 106.5 million.

“Les Femmes d’Alger” was originally owned by the now deceased American collector couple Victor and Sally Ganz, which in 1956 directly from Picasso’s gallery owner Daniel Kahnweiler bought. From the factory, there are 15 versions. The couple bought for all full-time total of 212 $ 500 but sold it later gradually returns. In the work which has now been auctioned, is the version of “O”. She had been surfaced recently in 1997 at an auction and then sold for 32 million dollars. Last was the homage to Picasso’s recently deceased friend and rival artist Henri Matisse, according to Christie’s a “very private collector from New York”.

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