Collective sculptures, figures, figurines. The most expensive statues in the world Damien Hirst

The sculpture of the famous sculptor Alberto Dzhacometty, which was created in 1947 and left the last auction of Christie's for $ 141 million. By the way, the "pointing person" is one of the six existing similar statues that were created in one time period. Creation with a height of 180 cm, by the intention of the author, symbolizes loneliness and unreliability of human existence.
The name of the buyer who made such an impressive purchase is not disclosed at the moment.

The cult work of the same author, which is considered the most recognizable sculpture of the last century. The "pointing person" was also considered the most expensive, in 2010 she appeared at auction for the first time in the last 20 years. Bidding lasted only 8 minutes, during which time the price for creation increased five times, after which the widow of the Brazilian banker Lily Safre was sold.

This sculpture is a bright representative of contemporary art - a slightly reduced copy of the European man's skull of the 18th century. The entire skull is decorated with minor diamonds (all of them are about 8.5 thousand), real teeth are inserted, and in the forehead "burning" a huge pink diamond weighing in 52.4 carats. The glamorous skull cost the Creator at 14 million euros, and in 2010 he left the hammer for $ 100 million.

One of the most famous works of the artist and sculpture Amedeo Modigliani (1910), which still compare with the famous bust of Nefertiti. "Head" strongly resembles all the works of Modigliani and has all the characteristic signs: an elongated face, a long thin nose, almond-shaped eyes and a small mouth. The famous creation was acquired by a collector in 2010 at auction in Paris for 59.5 million.

Minimalistic sculpture of Jeff Kuns, in which the senses are embodied the feeling of weightlessness and airiness, despite the fact that the weight of creation is a ton at a height of three meters. The orange dog is created from stainless steel and is one of five such "air" dogs of the author. It was sold at auction for 55 million dollars, the rest of the creations diverged at a lesser price.

The eightiesantimeter limestone figure was created about 5,000 years ago, and only found in the middle of the last century. The creation of an unknown master of ancient Mesopotamia for a long time belonged to the famous collector from America, but in 2007 it was sold on a New York auction for 29.1 million dollars.

Another work of Alberto Dzhacometty, created in 1954, is true, unfinished due to the death of the author. Bronze sculpture is an image of the younger brother of Jacketti, who was one of the author's favorite characters for inspiration and creativity. It was sold in 2013 for 50 million dollars.

It is included in the series "standing back to the viewer", over which the sculptor Henri Matisse worked. It is considered one of the greatest creations of the modernist sculpture of the last century. The height of the figure is 183 cm, the weight is about 270 kg. Originally estimated at $ 25 million, but was purchased at Christie's for $ 48.8 million.

On May 12, 2015, the New York Auction CHRISTIE'S was beaten by another price record: the sculpture "Pointing Man" Alberto Dzhacometti was sold for $ 141.3 million. This is almost $ 40 million more than the previous top lottery - another work of the Swiss Masters I ". In this selection, made up by one of the most authoritative editions Forbes, you can see what sculptures are now in demand and how much money for them is ready to pay collectors. Attention! Some sculptures may shake your sense of beautiful.

"Pointing man", 1947

The "pointing person" is the most expensive sculpture sold ever at auction. This is one of the six similar bronze statues of Jacketti, created in 1947. The sculpture passed from the hammer on Christie's, the last 45 years was kept in a private collection. Her former owner in 1970 bought the work from American collectors of Freda and Florence Olsen. Those, in turn, acquired a masterpiece in 1953 in the son of the famous French artist Henri Matisse Pierre. The remaining "indicating" sculptures are stored in the museums of the world, including the New York MOMA and the London TATE Gallery, as well as in private collections.

The lot sold on Christie's is different from others the fact that Jacketti manually painted it. The sculptor created a statue in a few hours - between midnight and nine in the morning, he told his biographer. The Swiss Master was preparing for the first in 15 years his own exhibition in New York. "I have already made a gypsum cast, but destroyed and created again and again, because the employees of the foundry shop were to pick it up in the morning. When they got the cast, the gypsum was still wet, "he recalled.

Picture thin, strongly elongated figures of people symbolizing loneliness and insecurity of existence, the sculptor began after World War II, during which Jacketti was forced to move from France to Switzerland and settled in Geneva.

Jacketty works are considered one of the most expensive in the modern art market. On the eve of trading, experts were assessed by the value of the "pointing person" of $ 130 million - above the value of the previous record holder, the "walking person I" of the same author. The name of the buyer, posted $ 141.3 million for sculpture, not disclosed.

"The walking person I", 1961

The "walking person I" is considered one of the most recognizable sculptures of the XX century. Working together with the portrait of her author is even depicted at bills in 100 Swiss francs. In 2010, she appeared at the auction for the first time in twenty years - Lot put out the German Dresdner Bank AG, which acquired a masterpiece for the corporate collection, but after the absorption of Commerzbank from the art objects got rid. Sellers sellers promised for the "walking person I" promised to send to charity.

Sculpture caused a real excitement. In the hall for her, not less than ten applicants fought, but the highest price as a result proposed an anonymous buyer by phone. Bidding lasted eight minutes, during this time the start price of the lot rose five times (and together with the commission - almost six).

The Wall Street Journal newspaper experts assumed that the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich became an anonymous buyer, two years old, who previously bought a bronze statue of a woman, created by Jacketti in 1956. However, later the Bloomberg agency found out that the owner of the statue was Lily Safra, the widow of the Brazilian banker Edmond Safra.

"For the love of the Lord", 2007

Sculpture made by the famous British artist Damien Hearst of 2 kg of platinum - slightly reduced copy of the skull of a 35-year-old Europeans XVIII century. Diamond cells (all of them 8601) are cut out with a laser, the jaw is made of platinum, and real teeth are inserted. Warning skull pink diamond weighing 52.4 carats. The work cost British artist, famous for his scandalous installations using animal corpses in formalin, £ 14 million.

Hirst argued that the name of the sculpture is inspired by the words of the mother when she appealed to him with the question: for the Love of God, What are you going to do next? ("For God's sake, what are you doing now?"). For the Love of God is a literal quote from the first message of John.

In 2007, the skull was put in the White Cube gallery, and in the same year it was sold for $ 100 million (£ 50 million pounds). The Bloomberg and the Washington Post newspaper wrote that Damien Hirst himself was in the investor group, as well as the Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk. The representative of the WHITE Cube gallery did not comment on rumors, but reported that buyers intend to subsequently resell the job of Hirst.

"Head", 1910-1912

For the work of Amedeo Modigliani collectors traded on the phone, as a result, the sculpture went with a hammer for $ 59.5 million, which was ten times higher than the starting price. The buyer's name was not revealed, but it is known that he came from Italy.

The sculpture of Modigliani was engaged in long - from 1909 to 1913, when the artist returned to painting again, including because of tuberculosis. "Head" sold on Christie's is included in the collection of seven sculptures "Pillars of tenderness", which the author exposed in 1911 in the studio of the Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza Courtos. All work is distinguished by expressed head head, almond-shaped eyes, long, thin nose, small mouth and elongated neck. Experts also carry out analogies between the moduliani sculpture and the famous Bust of Tsaritsa Nefertiti, which is kept in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.

"A dog from balloons (orange)", 1994-2000

A stainless steel dog came to the auction from the collection of a businessman Peter Brand, having visited the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York, on the Grand Channel in Venice and in the Versailles Palace. Presale estimation of a lot of three meters high and weighing a ton was $ 55 million. The orange dog is the first of the five "air" dogs created by the American artist. The remaining four sculptures also separated by meetings, but were sold at a lower price.

Commercial success came to Kunsu, the former broker with Wall Street, in 2007. Then his giant metal installation "Suspended Heart" was sold at Sotheby's for $ 23.6 million. Next year, a huge purple "balloon flower" went to Christie's for $ 25.8 million. In 2012, the "Tulips" sculpture was sold on Christie's for $ 33.7 million

"Lioness Guennola", about 3000-2800 BC. e.

Created in ancient Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago, the statuette of limestone was found in 1931 by Iraq, not far from Baghdad. In the head of the lioness, two holes for the lace or chain are preserved: it was intended for wearing on the neck. Since 1948, work belonged to the famous American collector Aleravera Bradley Martin and exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum of Arts. Announced the decision to sell the sculpture, Martin promised the remedy funds to send to charity.

Antique "Lioness" set a record for sculptures in 2007 on New York Sotheby's, shifting the bronze "Woman's Woman's head" from the first place, sold less than a month before $ 29.1 million. The final price for the sculpture exceeded the initial more than three times. Five buyers took part in the struggle for the statuette, the winner of the auction wished to remain unknown.

"Big Diego Head", 1954

Bronze sculpture depicts the younger brother Alberto Djacket Diego, he was a favorite model of the Swiss master. "Goals" There are several, the last of the series was sold at Sotheby's in 2013 for $ 50 million. "The big head of Diego" is cast for installation on a street square in New York, due to the death of the author, working on it was suspended. Estimate sculputers who left the hammer on Christie's was $ 25-35 million.

Jacketti is included in the top 10 most expensive artists in the world since 2002, after sale on Christie's of several artist's works. The most expensive statuette that was sold then became the third of the eight copies of the sculpture "Cell" - it was estimated at $ 1.5 million. However, it was 2010 for the artist, when the works of Jacketti became evaluated at Picasso's paintings.

"Nude Women's Figure from the back of IV", 1958

Experts call the bronze bas-relief "Nude Women's Figure from the back of IV" the most striking of the four works of the series "standing back to the viewer", and the entire series is the greatest creation of the modern sculpture of the twentieth century.

Until 2010, none of the sculptures of this cycle for trading exhibited, although the bas-relief sold on Christie's is not the only one: the cast of plaster for each series was distinguished immediately in 12 copies. The height of one figure is 183 cm, the weight is more than 270 kg. Now the full series of "standing back to the viewer" is kept in nine leading museums of the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, in the Tate Gallery in London and in the center of Pompidou in Paris. In private collections there were only two copies, one of which was sold from the hammer.

"Nude Women's Figure from the back of IV" was originally estimated at $ 25-35 million, and the amount paid for it became a record for the works of Matisse, ever sold at auction.

"Madame L.R.", 1914-1917

The legendary sculptor of Romanian origin received worldwide fame in Paris, where he lived 35 years old. His creativity had a great influence on the development of modern sculpture, Brankuzy was called the ancestor of sculptural abstraction. In the center of Pompidou from the very beginning of existence there is a separate "Brankuzy Room".

Wooden figurine Madame L.R. Brankuzy was created in 1914-1917. This is one of his most famous works. It is believed that Madame L.R. Transfers the traditional style of the Carpathian thread and the influence of African art on the creativity of the author. The sculpture was sold in 2009 on Christie's as part of the art collection of French Couturier Iva Saint-Laurent.

Tulips, 1995-2004

"The figures on the price tag sometimes seem to me astronomical. But people pay such amounts because they dream to join the art process. Their right, "said Jeff Kuns in conversation with InterView magazine after his" tulips "were sold for $ 33.7 million. Kuns call the most successful American artist after Warhol.

Tulips are one of the most complex and large sculptures from the festive series (with visible weightlessness they weigh more than three tons). This is a bouquet of seven twisted colors from "balloons", made of stainless steel and coated translucent paint.

The concept of children's innocence, which reveals on the plan of the author, bought in 2012 one of the most extravagant heroes of Las Vegas, the owner of the casino and billionaire Steve Winn. He decided to demonstrate this acquisition in Wynn Las Vegas: a businessman adheres to the idea of \u200b\u200b"public art" and often exposes objects from his collection to him.

How much would you pay for the sculpture that you see in the photo? At first glance, it seems that this is the work of a freshman student, which he sketched in a hurry at the next laboratory work on sculpture. And from the second look - too. If you try to appreciate the cost of this, then the amounts come to the head from $ 5 to $ 25, no more. But everything is much more complicated, at Sotheby's auction for this statuette, someone laid out $ 104 million!

Sculpture "Stepming Man" sold for $ 104 million

This sculpture is called "Hanging man", created her famous Swiss Alberto Giacometti (Alberto Giacometti). For the Sotheby's auction, this amount is an absolute record in the history of art trade. Before that, the absolute championship belonged to Pablo Picasso, whose picture "Boy with a tube" Was sold in 2004 for $ 102 million.

Alberto Giacometti in his workshop

As far as is known, ten members of the auction fought for the sculpture of Jacometty, but won an anonymous buyer who led a bid by telephone. The cost of a "walking person" during the trading rose six times compared with the initial price.

On May 12, 2015, the New York Auction CHRISTIE'S was beaten by another price record: the sculpture "Pointing Man" Alberto Dzhacometti was sold for $ 141.3 million. This is almost $ 40 million more than the previous top lot - another work of the Swiss master "Haying Man I " More about the work of what sculptors are popular at auctions and how many collectors are ready for them ...

"Pointing man", 1947

The "pointing person" is the most expensive sculpture sold ever at auction. This is one of the six similar bronze statues of Jacketti, created in 1947. The sculpture passed from the hammer on Christie's, the last 45 years was kept in a private collection. Her former owner in 1970 bought the work from American collectors of Freda and Florence Olsen. Those, in turn, acquired a masterpiece in 1953 in the son of the famous French artist Henri Matisse Pierre. The remaining "indicating" sculptures are stored in the museums of the world, including the New York MOMA and the London TATE Gallery, as well as in private collections.

The lot sold on Christie's is different from others the fact that Jacketti manually painted it. The sculptor created a statue in a few hours - between midnight and nine in the morning, he told his biographer. The Swiss Master was preparing for the first in 15 years his own exhibition in New York. "I have already made a gypsum cast, but destroyed and created again and again, because the employees of the foundry shop were to pick it up in the morning. When they got the cast, the gypsum was still wet, "he recalled.

Picture thin, strongly elongated figures of people symbolizing loneliness and insecurity of existence, the sculptor began after World War II, during which Jacketti was forced to move from France to Switzerland and settled in Geneva.

Jacketty works are considered one of the most expensive in the modern art market. On the eve of trading, experts were assessed by the value of the "pointing person" of $ 130 million - above the value of the previous record holder, the "walking person I" of the same author. The name of the buyer, posted $ 141.3 million for sculpture, not disclosed.

"The walking person I", 1961

The "walking person I" is considered one of the most recognizable sculptures of the XX century. Working together with the portrait of her author is even depicted at bills in 100 Swiss francs.

In 2010, she appeared at the auction for the first time in twenty years - Lot put out the German Dresdner Bank AG, which acquired a masterpiece for the corporate collection, but after the absorption of Commerzbank from the art objects got rid. Sellers sellers promised for the "walking person I" promised to send to charity.

Sculpture caused a real excitement. In the hall for her, not less than ten applicants fought, but the highest price as a result proposed an anonymous buyer by phone. Bidding lasted eight minutes, during this time the start price of the lot rose five times (and together with the commission - almost six).

The Wall Street Journal newspaper experts assumed that the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich became an anonymous buyer, two years old, who previously bought a bronze statue of a woman, created by Jacketti in 1956. However, later the Bloomberg agency found out that the owner of the statue was Lily Safra, the widow of the Brazilian banker Edmond Safra.

"For the love of the Lord", 2007

Sculpture made by the famous British artist Damien Hearst of 2 kg of platinum - slightly reduced copy of the skull of a 35-year-old Europeans XVIII century. Diamond cells (all of them 8601) are cut out with a laser, the jaw is made of platinum, and real teeth are inserted. Warning skull pink diamond weighing 52.4 carats. The work cost British artist, famous for his scandalous installations using animal corpses in formalin, £ 14 million.

Hirst argued that the name of the sculpture is inspired by the words of the mother when she appealed to him with the question: for the Love of God, What are you going to do next? ("For God's sake, what are you doing now?"). For the Love of God is a literal quote from the first message of John.

In 2007, the skull was put in the White Cube gallery, and in the same year it was sold for $ 100 million (£ 50 million pounds). The Bloomberg and the Washington Post newspaper wrote that Damien Hirst himself was in the investor group, as well as the Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk. The representative of the WHITE Cube gallery did not comment on rumors, but reported that buyers intend to subsequently resell the job of Hirst.

"Head", 1910-1912

For the work of Amedeo Modigliani collectors traded on the phone, as a result, the sculpture went with a hammer for $ 59.5 million, which was ten times higher than the starting price. The buyer's name was not revealed, but it is known that he came from Italy.

The sculpture of Modigliani was engaged in long - from 1909 to 1913, when the artist returned to painting again, including because of tuberculosis. "Head" sold on Christie's is included in the collection of seven sculptures "Pillars of tenderness", which the author exposed in 1911 in the studio of the Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza Courtos.

All work is distinguished by expressed head head, almond-shaped eyes, long, thin nose, small mouth and elongated neck. Experts also carry out analogies between the moduliani sculpture and the famous Bust of Tsaritsa Nefertiti, which is kept in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.

"A dog from balloons (orange)", 1994-2000

A stainless steel dog came to the auction from the collection of a businessman Peter Brand, having visited the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York, on the Grand Channel in Venice and in the Versailles Palace. Pre-sale estimation of a lot of three meters high and weighing a ton was $ 55 million.

Orange dog is the first of five "air" dogs created by the American artist. The remaining four sculptures also separated by meetings, but were sold at a lower price.

Commercial success came to Kunsu, the former broker with Wall Street, in 2007. Then his giant metal installation "Suspended Heart" was sold at Sotheby's for $ 23.6 million. Next year, a huge purple "balloon flower" went to Christie's for $ 25.8 million. In 2012, the "Tulips" sculpture was sold on Christie's for $ 33.7 million

"Lioness Guennola", about 3000-2800 BC. e.

Created in ancient Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago, the statuette of limestone was found in 1931 by Iraq, not far from Baghdad. In the head of the lioness, two holes for the lace or chain are preserved: it was intended for wearing on the neck.

Since 1948, work belonged to the famous American collector Aleravera Bradley Martin and exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum of Arts. Announced the decision to sell the sculpture, Martin promised the remedy funds to send to charity.

The antique "Lioness" set a record price for sculptures in 2007 on New York Sotheby's, shifting a bronze "Woman's head" from the first place, sold less than a month before $ 29.1 million.

The final price for the sculpture exceeded the initial more than three times. Five buyers took part in the struggle for the statuette, the winner of the auction wished to remain unknown.

"Big Diego Head", 1954

Bronze sculpture depicts the younger brother Alberto Djacket Diego, he was a favorite model of the Swiss master. "Goals" There are several, the last of the series was sold at Sotheby's in 2013 for $ 50 million.

"The big head of Diego" is cast for installation on a street square in New York, due to the death of the author, work has been suspended. Estimate sculputers who left the hammer on Christie's was $ 25-35 million.

Jacketti is included in the top 10 most expensive artists in the world since 2002, after sale on Christie's of several artist's works. The most expensive statuette that was sold then became the third of the eight copies of the sculpture "Cell" - it was estimated at $ 1.5 million. However, it was 2010 for the artist, when the works of Jacketti became evaluated at Picasso's paintings.

"Nude Women's Figure from the back of IV", 1958

Experts call the bronze bas-relief "Nude Women's Figure from the back of IV" the most striking of the four works of the series "standing back to the viewer", and the entire series is the greatest creation of the modern sculpture of the twentieth century.

Until 2010, none of the sculptures of this cycle for trading exhibited, although the bas-relief sold on Christie's is not the only one: the cast of plaster for each series was distinguished immediately in 12 copies.

The height of one figure is 183 cm, the weight is more than 270 kg. Now the full series of "standing back to the viewer" is kept in nine leading museums of the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, in the Tate Gallery in London and in the center of Pompidou in Paris. In private collections there were only two copies, one of which was sold from the hammer.

"Nude Women's Figure from the back of IV" was originally estimated at $ 25-35 million, and the amount paid for it became a record for the works of Matisse, ever sold at auction.

"Madame L.R.", 1914-1917

The legendary sculptor of Romanian origin received worldwide fame in Paris, where he lived 35 years old. His creativity had a great influence on the development of modern sculpture, Brankuzy was called the ancestor of sculptural abstraction. In the center of Pompidou from the very beginning of existence there is a separate "Brankuzy Room".

Wooden figurine Madame L.R. Brankuzy was created in 1914-1917. This is one of his most famous works. It is believed that Madame L.R. Transfers the traditional style of the Carpathian thread and the influence of African art on the creativity of the author.

The sculpture was sold in 2009 on Christie's as part of the art collection of French Couturier Iva Saint-Laurent.

Tulips, 1995-2004

"The figures on the price tag sometimes seem to me astronomical. But people pay such amounts because they dream to join the art process. Their right, "said Jeff Kuns in conversation with InterView magazine after his" tulips "were sold for $ 33.7 million. Kuns call the most successful American artist after Warhol.

Tulips are one of the most complex and large sculptures from the festive series (with visible weightlessness they weigh more than three tons). This is a bouquet of seven twisted colors from "balloons", made of stainless steel and coated translucent paint.

The concept of children's innocence, which reveals on the plan of the author, bought in 2012 one of the most extravagant heroes of Las Vegas, the owner of the casino and billionaire Steve Winn. He decided to demonstrate this acquisition in Wynn Las Vegas: a businessman adheres to the idea of \u200b\u200b"public art" and often exposes objects from his collection to him.