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18 Incredibly expensive Artworks Sold in which millions this year.
This year was a record sales records year Art for artists, records for living artists, folders and folders for American artists to items sold in auction prices for paintings, sculptures and drawings mounted arrow in the millions, dropping the jaws of someone who is not a hedge fund manager, the casino magnate or a member of the Qatari royal family.
Alas, as in previous years, the results of a 2013 art auction show a persistent DWMA dead white male artists model continues to dominate the field, with the Monets and Picassos completing the record ranks, while Bourgeois Kusamas track and behind competitions may be really art sales increasing whose penis is bigger, as a recent post Rocker Huff live debate.
As we mull over the unsatisfactory trend, here are 19 of the most expensive works sold at auction or privately this year Let us know your thoughts on the number of nauseating collection eyebrows in the comments.
1 Claude Monet The Miss Nettles 8 to 1 million.
To start the list, we have 1897 Monet oil painting that sold for a lowly January 8 million at Christie's in New York last November.
2 Edward Hopper Blackwell Island February 19 millions.
Want a landscape painting depicting Roosevelt Island before being renowned for our 32nd president, you would need to drop about 19 million at Christie's in New York last May.
3 Studie zu Improvisation Wassily Kandinsky March 21 2 million.
This painting is a 1909 Kandinsky early manifestation of Improvisations series in which the artist transformed the visual world in mesmerizing patterns of color and form it costs someone a 21-2000000 fees at Christie s in London in June
4 Willem de Kooning Untitled VIII 32 1 Million.
This 1977 work Kooning became his dearest offer to sell, selling 32 1 million at Christie's in New York last November.
5 Cathedral Square Gerhard Richter, Milan 37 million.
Sold at Sotheby's in London in May, it's even more expensive piece of Richter.
6 Edward Hopper East Wind Over 5 million Weehawken 40.
This 1934 work is a cityscape of New Jersey town in the Hudson River in New York, it was estimated to fetch about 22-28 million at Christie's in New York in December but ended up selling just north 40 million making it the most expensive ever auctioned hopper.
7 to Jeanne Hebuterne s Amedeo Modigliani cap 42 1 million.
This expensive painting, which sold for 42 1 million at an auction in London Sotheby's last February, has a tragic story behind the work is the concubine of Modigliani, a woman who commits suicide, killing herself and her unborn child just a day after the artist himself died at the tender age of 35.
8 Pablo Picasso s Woman sitting near a window Woman sitting by a window 44 9 million.
The price running for a portrait from 1932 golden muse Picasso, Marie-Therese Walter Approximately 44 9 million in a sale at Sotheby February in London.
Two telephone bidders competed for nine minutes before the hammer fell on the Grace December at Sotheby's in New York The final price beat pre-sale of 15 million 20 million by a long shot guess.
10 Mark Rothko Untitled # 11 46 1 Million.
Should take around 35-45000000, this orange and white canvas was sold for an impressive 46 million to 1 million Christies in New York last November.
11 Jean-Michel Basquiat's Dustheads 48 4000000.
Another record above 48 4 million at Christie's New York work the most expensive city in May, becoming Basquiat ever sold.
12 Roy Lichtenstein Woman with Flowered Hat 56 1 million.
What looks like a portrait of Queen mutilated a surreal card game is actually a Lichtenstein has sold 56 1000000 last May at Christie's in New York.
It may just look like a simple, retro Coca Cola advertising - and good, it is mainly - but the familiar black and white pop piece is actually an iconic picture of the one and only Andy Warhol And it cost someone 57 million nab this last November in the auction of a New York City Christie.
This particular dripping left the bidding block 58 to 3 million at Christie's in New York in May doesn t even come close to 140 million Pollock artworks that have passed hands in a private sale 2006.
15 Jeff Koons Balloon Dog Orange 58 4 million.
It wouldn t an expensive sales listicle without at least one of Koons shiny balloon animals It cost a lucky buyer a little more than 58 million sale to Christie's auction in New York last November.
16 Andy Warhol Silver Car Crash Double Disaster 105 million.
Although it was eclipsed by an even greater sales from the sale of postwar and contemporary even Christie in November in New York, Silver Car Crash broke records as the most expensive Warhol ever sold at auction.
17 Francis Bacon Three Studies Lucian Freud 142 million.
This painting 1969 by the late Irish painter Francis Bacon sold for a whopping $ 142 million in November at Christie's in New York, making it the most expensive work of art ever sold at inflation of sales not considered Move over Munch is a new art painting worthy in town.
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