"Mona Lisa". Leonardo da Vinci 1503-1506

One of the most recognizable and famous paintings in the world, its full name is the portrait of Mrs. Liza Del Jocondo. The portrait shows the Italian Lisa del Dzhokondo, a representative of the middle class of the Renaissance, the mother of six children. The model has eyebrows and hair on the top of the forehead, which corresponds to a quattrocho fashion. Leonardo Da Vinci attributed this portrait to his favorite work, often described it in his notes and undoubtedly considered it his best work. This picture is rightfully headed by a list of the most popular paintings of the world.

"Birth of Venus." Sandro Botticelli 1482 - 1486

Excellent illustrating aphrodite birth. Naked Venus goes to the ground in the sink, adjusted by the Western Wind Marshmallow, the wind mixed with flowers - it symbolizes the spring and beauty. On the shore, Aphrodite meets one of the goddesses of beauty. After creating this picture, the artist Botticelli received world recognition, in this his unique style of writing helped him, he was favorably distinguished from contemporaries with his floating rhythms that were not used by anyone besides him.

"Creation of Adam." Michelangelo 1511

Posted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the fourth of the nine work of the series. Michelangelo specified the unreality of symbiosis of heaven and human, according to the artist, in the image of God, the phenomenal celestial power was concluded, but the creative energy, which can be conveyed without touching.

"Morning in a pine forest". Ivan Shishkin, Konstantin Savitsky 1889

"Girl on the Ball". Pablo Picasso 1905.

Picture of contrasts. It depicts a wreck of a stray circus in the scorched desert. The main characters are also very contrasting: a strong, sad, monolithic man sits on Cuba. At that time, near him, on a bowl, balancing a fragile and smiling girl.

"The last day of Pompeii". Karl Brullov 1833.

During his visit to Pompei in 1828, Bruhov made a lot of sketches and sketches, he already knew how the final work would look like. The picture was presented in Rome, but then it was moved to Louvre, where many critics and art historians admired the Talent of Charles, after this work, the world classic came to him, but unfortunately, most of his work is associated only with this picture.

One of the most recognizable paintings

"Starlight Night". Vincent Van Gogh 1889

The cultivation picture of the Dutch artist, whom he wrote in his memories (which is not peculiar to Van Gogh), because at that time he was in the hospital. After all, when the attacks of rage passed, he was quite adequate and could draw. For this, his brother Theo agreed with doctors, and they allowed him to work with paints in the ward. Why Van Gogh cut off his ear? Read in my article.

"Ninth Val". Ivan Aivazovsky 1850.

One of the most famous pictures on marine topics (Marina). Aivazovsky was from the Crimea, so explaining his love for water and the sea is not difficult. The ninth shaft is an artistic image, inevitable danger and tension, can still be said: lull in front of the storm.

"Girl with a pearl serving." Jan Vermeer 1665.

The cult scene of the Dutch artist is also referred to as the Dutch Mona Liza. This work is not quite portrait, and more refers to the genre of the "Troni", where the emphasis is not done on a man's portrait, but on his head. A girl with a pearl serving is popular in modern culture, several films have been filmed about it.

"Impression. Rising Sun "Claude Monet 1872

The picture that gave the beginning of the "Impressionism" genre. Popular journalist Louis Lerua, after visiting the exhibition with this work, defeated Claude Monet, he wrote: "Wallpaper hanging on the wall, and those look more completed than this" impression "." It is considered a canonical representative of the genre, more stronger than many other paintings of great artists.

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"Players in cards"

Author

Paul Cesanne

Country France
Years of life 1839–1906
Style Postpressionism

The artist was born in the south of France in a small town of Ex-en-Provence, but painting began to engage in Paris. This success came to him after the personal exhibition organized by the collector Ambruz Vollar. In 1886, 20 years before his care, he moved to the outskirts of his hometown. Young artists called him called "pilgrimage in ex".

130x97 cm
1895 year
Cost
$ 250 million
sold in 2012
on private trading

Creativity Cezanne is easy to understand. The only rule of the artist was the direct transmission of the subject or the plot on the canvas, so his paintings do not cause the viewer's perplexity. Cezanne connected two main French traditions in his art: classicism and romanticism. With the help of a colorful texture, he attached an amazing plasticity of items.

A series of five paintings "Players in Maps" was written in 1890-1895. Their plot is the same - several people play poker enthusiastically. Available only by the number of players and canvas sizes.

Four paintings are stored in the museums of Europe and America (Museum of D'Orce, Metropolitan Museum, Barnes Foundation and the Kurto Institute), and the fifth time until recently was the decoration of the private collection of Greek billionaire-shipowner Georg Embyricos. Shortly before his death, in the winter of 2011, he decided to set it on sale. Art dealer William Akvavella and a glimpical name of Larry Gagosyan, who offered it about $ 220 million, who were offering about $ 220 million dollars for it by the potential buyers of "free" work. As a result, the picture went to the royal family of the Arab state Qatar for 250 million. The largest art deal in the history of painting was closed in February 2012. This in Vanity Fair reported a journalist Alexander Pierce. She found out the cost of the picture and the name of the new owner, and then information penetrated the media around the world.

In 2010, the Arab Museum of Contemporary Art and the Qatari National Museum opened in Qatar. Now their collections are replenished. Perhaps the fifth version of the "players in the card" was acquired by Sheikh for this purpose.

SAMIdear paintingin the world

Owner
Sheikha Hamad
bin caliph al-tanya

The Al-Tanya dynasty rules Qatar over 130 years. About half a century ago, huge oil and gas reserves were found here that the VMIG made Qatar one of the richest regions of the world. Thanks to the export of hydrocarbons in this small country, the largest GDP per capita is recorded. Sheikh Hamad Bin Califa Al-Tanya in 1995, while his father was in Switzerland, with the support of family members seized power. The merit of the current ruler, according to experts, in a clear strategy for the development of the country, creating a successful state image. Now the Constitution and Prime Minister appeared in Qatar, and women received the right to vote in the parliamentary elections. By the way, it was the emir of Qatar that founded Al-Jazeera news channel. Huge attention of the Arab state's authorities pay culture.

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"Number 5"

Author

Jackson Pollock

Country USA
Years of life 1912–1956
Style Abstract expressionism

Jack Sprayer - such a nickname was given to the American public for the special technique of painting. The artist refused the brush and easel, and the paint spilled over the surface of the canvas or fibrolite during the continuous movement around and inside them. From an early age, he was fond of Philosophy Jedda Krishnamurti, the main promise of which - the truth opens during the free "outpouring".

122x244 cm
1948.
cost
$ 140 million
sold in 2006
on the auction Sotheby's.

The value of the work of the midfield is not as a result, but in the process. The author did not accidentally call his art of painting action. With his light hand it became the main domain of America. Jackson Pollock mixed paint with sand, broken glass, and wrote a piece of cardboard, masticic, knife, scoop. The artist was so popular that in the 1950s, the imitators were found even in the USSR. The picture "Number 5" is recognized as one of the strangest and expensive in the world. One of the creators of DreamWorks David Hepfen acquired it for a private collection, and in 2006 sold at the Sotheby`s auction for 140 million dollars to Mexican David Martinez. However, soon a law firm on behalf of his client released a press release, which reported that David Martinez is not the owner of the painting. Apparently only one thing is known: the Mexican financier has indeed recently collecting works of contemporary art. It is unlikely that he would have missed such a "large fish" as "number 5" of the midfield.

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"Woman III"

Author

Villem de Kuning

Country USA
Years of life 1904–1997
Style Abstract expressionism

The leaving from the Netherlands, he emigrated in the United States in 1926. In 1948, a personal exhibition of the artist took place. Art critics appreciated complex, nervous black and white compositions, recognizing in their author of the Grand Artist-modernist. He suffered most of his life with alcoholism, but the joy of creating new art is felt in every work. De Kuning is distinguished by the impulsiveness of painting, wide strokes, which is sometimes the image does not fit in the boundaries of the canvas.

121x171 cm
1953.
Cost
$ 137 million
sold in 2006
on private trading

In the 1950s, women with empty eyes, massive breasts, ugly features of the face appear in the paintings of De Kuning. "Woman III" became the last work from this series participating in the auction.

Since the 1970s, the picture was kept in the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, but after the introduction of hard rules of morality in the country, they sought to get rid of it. In 1994, the work was taken out of Iran, and after 12 years its owner David Hepfen (the most producer who sold the Jackson Pollock "Number 5" canal) gave the picture to Milliona Stephen Cohen for $ 137.5 million. Interestingly, Hepfhen began to sell his painting collection in one year. It gave rise to a weight of rumors: for example, that producer decided to buy Los Angeles Times newspaper.

At one of the art-forums, an opinion was expressed about the similarity of the "Women III" with the picture of Leonardo da Vinci "Lady with Mornosta". For a toothy smile and a shapeless figure of the heroine, the connoisseur of painting saw the grace of the royal blood. This is evidenced by the poorly painted crown, the wedding head of a woman.

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"Portrait of AdeliBloch-Bauer I »

Author

Gustav Klimt.

Country Austria
Years of life 1862–1918
Style Modern

Gustav Klimt was born in the family of an engraver family and was the second of seven children. Three Sons of Ernest Klimt became artists, and only Gustav had become famous for the whole world. Most of the childhood he spent in poverty. After the death of his father, he was responsible for the whole family. It is at this time that climt develops his style. In front of his paintings, any viewer freezes: under thin smears of gold is clearly visible to frank eroticism.

138x136 cm
1907 year
Cost
$ 135 million
sold in 2006
on the auction Sotheby's.

The fate of the picture, which is called "Austrian Mona Liza", can easily become the basis for bestseller. The work of the artist was the cause of the conflict of a whole state and one elderly lady.

So, on the "portrait of Adeli Bloch-Bauer I" depicted an aristocrat, Ferdinand Bloch's wife. Her last will was to transfer the picture of the Austrian state gallery. However, fleas in his will canceled donation, and the canvas expropriated the Nazis. Later, the gallery hardly bought the "Golden Adel", but here the heirs appeared - Maria Altman, the niece of Ferdinand Bloch.

In 2005, the loud process of "Maria Altman against the Austrian Republic" began, following which the picture "left" with her in Los Angeles. Austria adopted unprecedented measures: there were negotiations on loans, the population sacrificed money to buy a portrait. Good and did not won evil: the price of Altman raised to $ 300 million. At the time of the proceedings, she was 79 years old, and she entered the story as a person who had changed the will of Bloch Bauer in favor of personal interests. The picture was acquired by Ronald Laoupere, the owner of the "New Gallery" in New York, where it is still in this day. Not for Austria, for him Altman lowered the price of up to $ 135 million.

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"Creek"

Author

Edward Munk.

Country Norway
Years of life 1863–1944
Style expressionism

The first picture of the mud, which has become famous worldwide, - "Sick Girl" (exists in five copies) - devoted to the sister of the artist who deceased from tuberculosis aged 15 years. Minka has always been interested in the theme of death and loneliness. In Germany, his heavy, manic painting even provoked a scandal. However, despite the depressive plots, his paintings have special magnetism. Take at least Creek.

73,5х91 cm
1895 year
Cost
$ 119.992 million
sold B. 2012.
on the auction Sotheby's.

The full name of the picture is der Schrei Der Natur (translated from the German - "Creek of Nature"). The person is whether the person is, or aliens expressing despair and panic - the same emotion is experiencing a viewer when looking at the picture. One of the key works of expressionism warns the themes that have become acute in the art of the XX century. According to one of the versions, the artist created it under the influence of mental disorder, who suffered all his life.

The picture twice was stolen from different museums, but it was returned. The resulting small damage after theft "Creek" was renovated, and he was again ready to show at the Mill Museum in 2008. For representatives of the pop culture, the work became a source of inspiration: Andy Warhol created a series of its print-copies, and the mask from the film "Creek" was made in the image and likeness of the hero of the picture.

For one plot, the Munk wrote four versions of the work: the one is in the private collection, pastels are performed. Norwegian billionaire Petter Olsen put it on auction on May 2, 2012. The buyer was Leon Black, who did not regrepresent the "cry" of the record amount. Founder of Companies Apollo Advisors, L.P. and Lion Advisors, L.P. Known by his love of art. Black is a patron of College Dartmouth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Center Lincoln, Metropolitan Museum of Arts. It has the largest collection of paintings of modern artists and classic masters of past centuries.

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"Nude on the background of bust and green leaves"

Author

Pablo Picasso

Country Spain, France
Years of life 1881–1973
Style cubism

By origin, he is a Spaniard, and in spirit and place of residence - a real Frenchman. Picasso's own art studio opened in Barcelona when he was only 16 years old. Then he went to Paris and spent a majority of life there. That is why in his surname double emphasis. At the heart of the style, invented Picasso, there is a denial of opinion that the object depicted on the canvas can be considered only under one view.

130x162 cm
1932 year
Cost
$ 106.482 million
sold in 2010 year
on the auction Christie's.

During his work in Rome, the artist met Olga Khokhlov's dancer, who soon became his wife. He finished with vagrancy, moved with her to a luxurious apartment. By that time, recognition found a hero, but the marriage was destroyed. One of the most expensive paintings of the world was created almost by chance - in great love, which, as always, Picasso was short. In 1927, he was carried away by the young Marie Terez Walter (she was 17 years old, he was 45). In secret, he left his wife with his mistress in the town near Paris, where he wrote a portrait, depicting Marie Terez in the image of Daphne. The canvas acquired the New York dealer Paul Rosenberg, and in 1951 sold him Sydney F. Brouda. Spouses Brody showed a picture of the world only one day and only because the artist was 80 years old. After the death of her husband, Mrs. Brody, in March 2010, put a work on auction in the House of Christie's. For six decades, the price has grown more than 5,000 times! An unknown collector acquired her for $ 106.5 million. In 2011, "Exhibition of One Pattern" took place in Britain, where she saw the light of the second time, but the name of the owner is still unknown.

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"Eight Elvis"

Author

Andy Warhole

Country USA
Years of life 1928-1987
Style
pop Art

"Sex and parties are the only places where you need to appear with your own person," said the cult artist Pop Art, director, one of the founders of the InterView magazine, designer Andy Warhol. He worked with Vogue and Harper`s Bazaar, drawing up the cover of the records, came up with shoes for I.miller. In the 1960s, pictures of America symbols appeared: Campbell`s soup and Coca-Cola, Presley and Monroe - made it legend.

358x208 cm
1963 year
Cost
$ 100 million
sold in 2008
on private trading

Warholovsky 60s - so called Pop Art's era in America. In 1962, he worked in Manhattan in the Studio "Factory", where all Bohemia New York gathered. Its bright representatives: Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Trueman Hood and other person known in the world. At the same time, Warhol tried silkographic technology - a multiple repeat of one image. He used this method and when creating "eight Elvis": the spectator seems to see the frames from the movie, where the star comes to life. There is everything that the artist loved so much: the win-win public image, the silver color and the premonition of death as the main promise.

There are two art dealers promoting the work of Warhol on the world market today: Larry Gagosyan and Alberto Morbai. The first in 2008 spent 200 million dollars to acquire more than 15 works of Warhol. The second buys and sells his paintings as christmas cards, only more expensive. But not they, and the modest French art consultant Philip Segalo helped the Roman connoisseur of the art of Annibal Berlingheri to sell the unknown buyer "Eight Elvis" for a record for Warhol - $ 100 million.

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"Orange,red Yellow"

Author

Mark Rotko

Country USA
Years of life 1903–1970
Style Abstract expressionism

One of the creators of painting the color field was born in Dvinsk, Russia (now - Daugavpils, Latvia), in a large family of the Jewish pharmacist. In 1911, they emigrated to the United States. Rotko studied at the Art Faculty of Yale University, achieved scholarships, but the anti-Semitic sentiments forced him to leave his studies. In spite of everything, the art criticism of the artist was guarded, and museums pursued all his life.

206x236 cm
1961 year
cost
$ 86,882 million
sold in 2012
on the auction Christie's.

The first artistic experiments of Rotko were a surrealistic orientation, but over time he simplified the plot to color spots by depriving them of any object. At first they had bright shades, and in the 1960s they poured brown, violet, thickening to black to the time of the death of the artist. Mark Rotko warned against the search for any meaning in his paintings. The author wanted to say exactly what said: Only a color dissolving in the air, and nothing more. He recommended looking at the work from a distance of 45 cm so that the viewer "delayed" in color, as in a funnel. Caution: Looking for all the rules can lead to the effect of meditation, that is, gradually come to the awareness of infinity, complete immersion in itself, relaxation, cleansing. The color in his paintings lives, breathes and has a strongest emotional impact (they say, sometimes healing). The artist stated: "The viewer should cry, looking at them," and such cases were indeed. On the theory of Rotko, at this moment people live the same spiritual experience as he in the process of working on the picture. If you managed to understand it on such a thin level, then you will not be surprised that these works of abstraction criticism often compare with icons.

The work "Orange, Red, Yellow" expresses the whole essence of painting Mark Rothko. Its initial cost at Christie's auction in New York 35-45 million dollars. An unknown buyer offered a price twice as exceeding Estimate. The name of the happy painting owner, as it often happens, not disclosed.

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"Triptych"

Author

Francis Bacon

Country
Great Britain
Years of life 1909–1992
Style expressionism

The adventures of Francis Beckon, a complete namesake and besides a long descendant of the Great Philosopher, began when the Father renounced him, unable to accept the homosexual tendencies of the Son. Bacon went first to Berlin, then to Paris, and then his traces are confused throughout Europe. During his life, his work was exhibited in leading cultural centers of the world, among which the Guggenheim Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery.

147,5х198 cm (each)
1976
Cost
$ 86.2 million
sold in 2008
on the auction Sotheby's.

Prestigious museums sought to possess paintings of Bekon, but the primary English audience was in no hurry to survive on such art. The legendary Prime Minister of British Margaret Thatcher talked about him: "A person who draws these horrific paintings."

The starting period in his work, the artist himself considered post-war time. Returning from service, he again engaged in painting and created the main masterpieces. Before the participation of Triptych, 1976 in the auction of the most expensive work of Bacon was "Etude to the portrait of Pope Innokentia X" ($ 52.7 million). In Triptykh, 1976, the artist depicted a mythical plot of the persecution of Oresta Fury. Of course, Orest is Bacon himself, and Furi is his torment. For more than 30 years, the picture was in the private collection and did not participate in exhibitions. This fact gives it a special value and, accordingly, increases cost. But what is a few million for a connoisseur of art, and even in Russian generous? Roman Abramovich began to create his collection in the 1990s, the girlfriend Dasha Zhukov had significantly affected him, which became a fashionable gallery in modern Russia. According to unofficial data, in the personal ownership of the businessman, there are works by Alberto Dzhacometti and Pablo Picasso, bought for amounts exceeding $ 100 million. In 2008, he became the owner of Triptych. By the way, in 2011 another valuable work of Bekon was acquired - "Three sketches to the portrait of Lucien Freud". Hidden sources say that Roman Arkadyevich again became the buyer.

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"Pond with water lily"

Author

Claude Monet

Country France
Years of life 1840–1926
Style impressionism

The artist is recognized by the ancestor of impressionism, "patented" this method in its canvases. The first significant work was the painting "Breakfast on the grass" (the original version of the work of Edward Mane). In his youth, he painted caricatures, and a real painting took up during his travels along the coast and outdoors. In Paris, he led the bohemian lifestyle and did not leave him even after the service in the army.

210x100 cm
1919 year
Cost
$ 80.5 million
sold in 2008
on the auction Christie's.

In addition to the fact that Monet was a great artist, he also enthusiastically engaged in gardening, adored living nature and flowers. In his landscapes, the state of nature is lightly, items as if blurred by air movement. The impression is enhanced by large smears, from a certain distance they become imperceptible and merge into a textured, three-dimensional image. In the painting of late Monet, the topic of water and life in it occupies a special place. In the town of Giverni, the artist was his own pond, where he grown pita from seeds, specially brought from Japan. When their flowers bloomed, he searched to drawing. A series of "Sweets" consists of 60 works that the artist wrote for almost 30 years to death. His vision has deteriorated with age, but he did not stop. Depending on the wind, the time of year and the weather, the pond has constantly changed, these changes wanted to capture Monet. Through thorough work towards him, an understanding of the essence of nature came. Some of the shells of the series are stored in the leading galleries of the world: the National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo), Orangery (Paris). The version of the next "pond with water lily" went into the hands of an unknown buyer for a record amount.

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False Star t.

Author

Jasper Jones

Country USA
Year of birth 1930
Style pop Art

In 1949, Jones entered the Design School in New York. Along with Jackson Pollock, Willem de Cunning and others, he is recognized as one of the main artists of the 20th century. In 2012, he received the "Presidential Medal of Freedom" - the highest civilian award of the United States.

137.2х170.8 cm
1959
Cost
$ 80 million
sold in 2006
on private trading

Like Marseille Dushan, Jones worked with real objects, depicting them on canvas and in sculpture in full accordance with the original. For their work, he used simple and understandable items: a beer bottle, flag or card. The False Start picture has no clear composition. The artist as if plays with the audience, often "wrong" signing colors in the picture, turning the concept of color itself: "I wanted to find a way to portray color so that it can be determined by some other method." His most explosive and "durable in himself", according to critics, the picture was acquired by an unknown buyer.

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"Sittingnude on the sofa"

Author

Amedeo Modiganiani

Country Italy, France
Years of life 1884–1920
Style expressionism

Moodigaliani often sick since childhood, during a feverish nonsense, he recognized his designer of the artist. He studied painting in Livorno, Florence, Venice, and in 1906 he went to Paris, where his art flourished.

65x100 cm
1917 year
Cost
$ 68,962 million
sold in 2010 year
on the auction Sotheby's.

In 1917, Modigliani met 19-year-old Jeanne Ebutern, who became his model, and then his wife. In 2004, one of her portraits was sold for $ 31.3 million, which became the last record before selling "Sitting Nude on the Sofa" in 2010. The picture acquired an unknown buyer for the maximum for Modigliani at the moment the price. Active sales of work began only after the death of the artist. He died in a poverty, sick tuberculosis, and the next day she committed with him and Zhanna Ebutern, who stayed on the ninth month of pregnancy.

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"Eagle on the pine"

Author

Qi Bayshi.

Country China
Years of life 1864–1957
Style Gokhua

Interest in calligraphy led Qi Baisha to painting. At the age of 28, he became a student of the artist Hu Zinyuan. The Ministry of Culture of China appropriated to him the title of "Great Artist of the Chinese People", in 1956 he received an international award of the world.

10x26 cm
1946
Cost
$ 65.4 million
sold in 2011
on the auction China Guardian.

Qi Bayshi was interested in those manifestations of the surrounding world, which many do not give values, and in this his greatness. A man without education became a professor and an outstanding creator in history. Pablo Picasso spoke about him: "I'm afraid to go to your country, because in China there are Qi Baisha." The composition "Eagle on a pine" is recognized as the largest work of the artist. In addition to the canvas, it includes two hieroglyphic scrolls. For China, the amount for which the work was bought, represents a record - 425.5 million yuan. Only a scroll of an ancient calligrapher Juan Tinjiang was sold for 436.8 million.

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"1949-A-№1"

Author

Clifford Still

Country USA
Years of life 1904–1980
Style Abstract expressionism

At the age of 20, I visited the Metropolitan Museum in New York and was disappointed. Later, he was signed up for the course of the student league of the arts, but left 45 minutes after the start of the classes - it turned out to be "not it." The first personal exhibition caused a resonance, the artist found himself, and with this recognition

79x93 cm
1949 year
Cost
$ 61.7 million
sold in 2011
on the auction Sotheby's.

All their works, and this is more than 800 canvases and 1600 works on paper, the stylist won the American city, where the museum of his name will be opened. Denver became such a city, but only construction was expensive to the authorities, and for its completion, four works were put up for auction. The works of Stille are unlikely to participate in the auction ever yet, which advanced their price in advance. The painting "1949-A-No.1" was sold for a record for the artist, although the experts predicted the sale of 25-35 million dollars.

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"Suprematic composition"

Author

Kazimir Malevich

Country Russia
Years of life 1878–1935
Style suprematism

Malevich learned painting in the Kiev Art School, then at the Moscow Academy of Arts. In 1913, he began to write abstract-geometric paintings in style, which called Suprematism (from Lat. "Dominance").

71x 88.5 cm
1916
Cost
$ 60 million
sold in 2008
on the auction Sotheby's.

In the urban museum Amsterdam, the picture was kept about 50 years old, but after a 17-year-old dispute with Malevich's relatives, the Museum gave her. The artist wrote this job in one year with the "Manifesto of Suprematism", so Sotheby`s was announced before the bid, it would not go to the private collection in a private collection. So it happened. It is better to look at it: the shapes on the canvas resemble the view of the Earth from the air. By the way, a few years earlier, the same relatives exproprical from Moma Museum another "Suprematic composition" to sell it at Phillips auction for $ 17 million.

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"Buckles"

Author

Paul Gajen

Country France
Years of life 1848–1903
Style Postpressionism

Up to seven years, the artist lived in Peru, then with his family returned to France, but children's memories constantly pushed him to travel. In France, he began writing paints, was friends with Van Gogh. He even spent several months with him in Arles, until Van Gogh during a quarrel cut off his ear.

93,4х60.4 cm
1902 year
cost
$ 55 million
sold in 2005
on the auction Sotheby's.

In 1891, Gauguen arranged to sell his paintings to go deep into the island of Tahiti to the reversed money. There he created work in which the fine relationship of nature and man is felt. Gogen lived in a straw hut, and a tropical paradise flourished on his canvases. His wife became the 13-year-old Tahitiankah tehra, which did not prevent the artist to join disorderls. Illness syphilis, he left for France. However, Mogen was closely, and he returned to Tahiti. This period is called "Second Taitian" - it was then that the picture of the "swimsters" was written, one of the most luxurious in his work.

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"Narcissus and a tablecloth in blue and pink tones"

Author

Henri Matisse

Country France
Years of life 1869–1954
Style Fovisov

In 1889, Henri Matisse had an attack of appendicitis. When he was recovered from the operation, the mother bought him paints. At first, Matisse from boredom copied color postcards, then - the works of great painters, which saw in the Louvre, and at the beginning of the 20th century came up with a style - Formism.

65.2x81 cm
1911
Cost
$ 46.4 million
sold in 2009
on the auction Christie's.

The picture "Narcissus and a tablecloth in blue and pink tones" for a long time belonged to Iva Saint-Laurent. After the death of Kuturier, his whole collection of art has moved into his friend's hands and lover Pierre Berez, who decided to set it at Christie's auction. The pearl of the sold collection was the painting "Narcissus and a tablecloth in blue and pink tones", written on an ordinary tablecloth instead of canvas. As a sample of foxism, it is filled with color energy, paints seem to explode and shout. From the famous series of paintings written on the tablecloth, today this work is the only one, which is in the private collection.

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"Sleeping girl"

Author

RoyLie

khtenstein

Country USA
Years of life 1923–1997
Style pop Art

The artist was born in New York, and graduating from school, went to Ohio, where he went to art courses. In 1949, Liechtenstein received a master's degree in elegant arts. Interest in comics and the ability to ironize the cult artist of the last century.

91x91 cm
1964
Cost
$ 44,882 million
sold in 2012
on the auction Sotheby's.

One day a chewing gum hit Liechtenstein. He redraged the picture from the liner on the canvas and became famous. In this plot from his biography, the entire pop art mission is concluded: consumption is a new god, and in the candy from Zhwachka no less beauty than in Mont Lisa. His paintings resemble comics and cartoons: Liechtenstein simply increased the finished image, drawing the rasters, used stencil printing and silk screen. The picture "Sleeping Girl" belonged for almost 50 years to collectors Beatris and Philip Pearrs, whose heirs sold it at auction.

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"Victory. Boogie Woogie"

Author

Pete Mondrian

Country Netherlands
Years of life 1872–1944
Style Neolasticism

His true last name - Cornelis - the artist changed to Mondrian, when in 1912 he moved to Paris. Together with the artist Teo Vann Dusburg founded the movement "Nexousticism". In honor of Mondrian, the Piet programming language is named.

27x127 cm
1944
cost
$ 40 million
sold in 1998.
on the auction Sotheby's.

The most "musical" from the artists of the 20th century earned a living by watercolor still lifes, although it became famous for a neoplastic artist. In the US, moved in the 1940s and spent there the remainder of life. Jazz and New York - this is what inspired him most! Picture "Victory. Bogi-Vuy "is the best example of this. "Branded" neat squares were obtained due to the use of sticky tape - Mondrian's favorite material. In America, he was called the "most famous immigrant." In the sixties, Yves Saint Laurent released the Mondrian dresses known to the whole world with a print into a large color cell.

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"Composition number 5"

Author

BasilKandinsky

Country Russia
Years of life 1866–1944
Style avant-garde

The artist was born in Moscow, and his father was from Siberia. After the revolution, he tried to cooperate with the Soviet power, but soon realized that the laws of the proletariat were not created for him, and was not emigrated to Germany without difficulties.

275x190 cm
1911
cost
$ 40 million
sold in 2007.
on the auction Sotheby's.

Kandinsky one of the first completely refused the subject painting, for which he received the title of genius. During Nazism in Germany, his paintings were attributed to "degenerative art" and have not been exhibited anywhere. In 1939, Kandinsky adopted French citizenship, he participated in the artistic process in Paris. His paintings "sound", as if the Fugue, so many were called "compositions" (the first was written in 1910, the latter - in 1939). "Composition number 5" is one of the key works in this genre: "The word" composition "sounded for me as a prayer," said the artist. Unlike many followers, he planned what would depict on a huge canvas, as if wrote notes.

21

"Etude Women in Blue"

Author

Fernian Leo

Country France
Years of life 1881–1955
Style cubism-postpressionism

Legeway received architectural education, and then he was a listener of the school of elegant arts in Paris. The artist considered himself the follower of Cezanna, was an apologist of the cubism, and in the XX century he was also successful as a sculptor.

96,5x129.5 cm
1912-1913 year
Cost
$ 39.2 million
sold in 2008
on the auction Sotheby's.

David Norman, president of the International Department of Impressionism and Modernism Sotheby`s, considers a huge amount paid for the "lady in blue", quite justified. The picture belongs to the famous lesion collection (the artist wrote three pictures on one plot, in private hands today - the last one. - Ed. Ed.), And the surface of the canvas is preserved in pristine. The author himself gave this job to the gallery of Der Sturm, then she fell into the Hermann Lang collection, the German Gatherers of Modernism, and now belongs to an unknown buyer.

22

"Street scene. Berlin"

Author

Ernst LudwigKirchner

Country Germany
Years of life 1880–1938
Style expressionism

For German expressionism, Kirchner became a sign person. However, local authorities accused him of commitment to "degenerative art", which tragically affected the fate of his paintings and in the life of the artist who committed suicide in 1938.

95x121 cm
1913 year
cost
$ 38,096 million
sold in 2006
on the auction Christie's.

After moving to Berlin, Kirchner created 11 sketches of street scenes. He was inspired by the turmoil and nervousness of a big city. In the film sold in 2006 in New York, an alarming state of the artist is particularly acute: people in Berlin Street resemble birds - elegant and dangerous. She became the last work from the famous series sold at the auction, the rest are stored in museums. In 1937, the Nazis were cruelly dealt with Kirchner: 639 of his works were withdrawn from German galleries, destroyed or sold abroad. The artist could not survive this.

23

"Recreationdancer"

Author

Edgar Degas

Country France
Years of life 1834–1917
Style impressionism

The history of Degi as an artist began with the fact that he worked as a copywriter in Louvre. He dreamed of becoming "famous and unknown," and eventually it was possible. At the end of the life, the deaf and dazzle 80-year-old degas continued to attend exhibitions and auctions.

64x59 cm
1879 year
cost
$ 37,043 million
sold in 2008
on the auction Sotheby's.

"Ballerina has always been for me only a pretext to portray fabrics and grab the movement," said Degas. Plots from the life of dancers as if peeped: girls are not posted by an artist, but just become part of the atmosphere caught a look of Degas. The "resting dancer" was sold for $ 28 million in 1999, and in less than 10 years they bought it for 37 million - today it is the most expensive work of the artist, ever put up for auction. Much's attention was paid to Ramam, he himself designed them and banned them. I wonder what kind of frame is installed on a sold picture?

24

"Painting"

Author

Juan Miro

Country Spain
Years of life 1893–1983
Style abstract art

During the Civil War in Spain, the artist was on the side of the Republicans. In 1937, he ran from fascist power to Paris, where he lived in a poverty with his family. During this period, Miro writes the picture "Help Spain!", Paying attention to the whole world on the dominance of fascism.

89x115 cm
1927 year
Cost
$ 36.824 million
sold in 2012
on the auction Sotheby's.

The second name of the picture is the "Blue Star". The artist wrote it in the same year when he announced: "I want to kill painting" and mercilessly mocked the canvas, scratching paint with nails, gluing to the canvas of feathers, covering work with garbage. His goal was to debunk myths about the sacrament of painting, but, coping with this, Miro created his own myth - surrealistic abstraction. His "painting" refers to the cycle of "Snowstice". At the auction, four buyers were fighting for her, but one phone call incognito solved the dispute, and "painting" became the most expensive picture of the artist.

25

"Blue Rose"

Author

Yves Klein

Country France
Years of life 1928–1962
Style Monochrome painting

The artist was born in the family of painters, but he studied oriental, seafarers, the Crafts of the Golden Ram, Zen-Buddhism and a lot. His personality and cheeky tricks were at times more interesting in monochrome paintings.

153x199x16 cm
1960.
Cost
$ 36,779 million
sold in 2012
At Christie's auction

The first exhibition of monophonic yellow, orange, pink work did not cause interest among the public. Klein was offended and the next time I presented 11 identical canvas stained with ultramarine interspersed with a special synthetic resin. He even patented this method. In history, the color entered as the "International Blue Color of Klein". Another artist sold the emptiness, created pictures, substituting the paper for the rain, setting on the cardboard, making on the canvas of the human body imprint. In a word, experimented as he could. To create a "blue rose" used dry pigments, resins, pebbles and a natural sponge.

26

"In search of Moses"

Author

Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema

Country Great Britain
Years of life 1836–1912
Style Neoclassicism

The prefix "Alma" to his surname Sir Lawrence added himself to be the first in the artistic directories. In the Victorian England, his paintings were so claimed that the artist was assigned the knightly rank.

213,4х136.7 cm
1902 year
Cost
$ 35.922 million
sold in 2011
on the auction Sotheby's.

The main theme of the creativity of the Alma Tadema was antiquity. In the pictures, he tried in the smallest details to portray the Epoch of the Roman Empire, for this even engaged in archaeological excavations on the Apenninsky Peninsula, and in his London house reproduced the historical interior of those years. Mythological plots have become another source of inspiration for him. The artist was extremely in demand during his lifetime, but after death he quickly forgot. Now interest is reborn, as the cost of the picture "In Search of Moses", seven times, exceeding the pre-sale estimate.

27

"Portrait of sleeping nude official"

Author

Lucien Freud.

Country Germany,
Great Britain
Years of life 1922–2011
Style Figurative painting

The artist is grandson Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis. After establishing fascism in Germany, his family emigrated to the UK. The works of Freud are located in the London Museum "Meeting of Wallace", where no modern artist was previously exhibited.

219.1х151.4 cm
1995.
Cost
$ 33.6 million
sold in 2008
on the auction Christie's.

While fashion artists of the 20th century created positive "color stains on the wall" and sold them for millions, Freud wrote extremely naturalistic paintings and sold them even more expensive. "I capture the shouts of the soul and suffering fading flesh," he said. Critics believe that all this "inheritance" Sigmund Freud. The paintings were so actively exhibited and successfully sold that specialists had a question of doubt: did they have hypnotic properties? The "Portrait of Sleeping Nude Official" auction, according to the Sun edition, acquired a connoisseur of the beautiful and billionaire Roman Abramovich.

28

"Violin and guitar"

Author

H.uan Gras.

Country Spain
Years of life 1887–1927
Style cubism

Born in Madrid, where he graduated from school art and crafts. In 1906, he moved to Paris and entered the circle of the most influential artists of the era: Picasso, Modigliani, Marriage, Matisse, Lyzh, also worked with Sergey Dyagilev and his troupe.

5x100 cm
1913 year
Cost
$ 28,642 million
sold in 2010 year
on the auction Christie's.

GRIA, according to his own words, was engaged in "plane, color architecture." His paintings are precisely thought out: he did not leave a single random smear, which relates creativity with geometry. The artist created his version of the cubism, although Pablo Picasso, the founder of the direction very much respected. The successor was even dedicated to him his first job in the style of cubism "Tribute to Picasso." The painting "Violin and Guitar" is recognized as outstanding in the work of the artist. During the lifetime, Gras was known, clinically critics and art historians. His works are exhibited in the world's largest museums, stored in private collections.

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"PortraitElouar fields »

Author

Salvador Dali

Country Spain
Years of life 1904–1989
Style surrealism

"Surrealism is me," said Dali, when he was excluded from the group of surrealists. Over time, he became the most famous surrealist artist. Creativity was given everywhere, and not just in the galleries. For example, it came up with a packaging for Chupa-Chupa.

25x33 cm
1929 year
Cost
$ 20.6 million
sold in 2011
on the auction Sotheby's.

In 1929, visit the Great Provocator and Scandalist Dali came the poet Paul Eluro with his Russian wife Galo. The meeting was the beginning of the history of love that lasted more than half a century. The picture "Portrait of the Eloire Field" is written just during this historic visit. "I felt that I was charged with a duty to capture the Poet's face, with the Olymp of which I kidnapped one of the music," the artist said. Before acquaintance with Galo, he was a virgin and experienced disgust with thought about sex with a woman. The love triangle existed before the death of Eluar, after which he became a duet Dali Gala.

30

"Anniversary"

Author

Mark Shagal

Country Russia, France
Years of life 1887–1985
Style Avangard

Moisha Segal was born in Vitebsk, but in 1910 he emigrated to Paris, replaced the name, became close to the leading avant-gardists of the era. In the 1930s, when capturing the authorities, the fascists went to the United States with the help of the American Consul. Returned to France only in 1948.

80x103 cm
1923
Cost
$ 14.85 million
sold in 1990
at Sotheby's auction

The picture "Anniversary" is recognized as one of the best works of the artist. It has all the features of his creativity: the physical laws of the world have erased, the feeling of fairy tales in the scenery of the Meshchansky life remains, and in the center of the plot - love. Chagall did not draw people from nature, but only in memory or fantasizing. In the picture "Anniversary" captured by the artist with his wife Bel. The picture was sold in 1990 and since then did not participate in the auction. Interestingly, in the New York Moma Museum Moma is absolutely the same, only called "Birthday". By the way, she was written before - in 1915.

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In early December 2011, new price records were established in Russian trading in London. Summing up the year, we have compiled a list of the most expensive works of artists of Russia according to the results of auction sales.

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If you believe the ratings, the most expensive Russian artist is Mark Rotko. His "White Center" (1950) sold for 72.8 million dollars, in addition, ranks 12th in the list of the most expensive paintings in the world at all. However, Rotko was a Jew, born in Latvia and left Russia aged 10 years. Honestlywith a similar stretch chase For records? Therefore, Rotko, like other emigrants, who left Russia, not yet becoming artists (for example, Tamaru de Lempicks and Haim Sutin), we crossed out of the list.

№ 1. Kazimir Malevich - $ 60 million

The author of the "black square" is too important person so that his works often met in free sale. So this picture fell on the auction very difficult. In 1927, Malevich, going to arrange an exhibition, brought almost a hundred works from his Leningrad workshop to Berlin. However, he was urgently recalled to his homeland, and he left them for storing the architect Hugo Hering. That saving picture in the difficult years of the fascist dictatorship, when they could well destroy as "degenerative art", and in 1958, after Malevich's death, sold them to the state museum of Standelek (Holland).

At the beginning of the XXI century, a group of heirs Malevich, almost forty people, began a trial - because Hering was not a legal owner of the paintings. As a result, the museum gave them this picture, and will give another four who will certainly cause Furore on some auction. After all, Malevich is one of the most fake artists in the world, and the origin of the paintings from the Museum of Stretcheck is impeccable. And in January 2012, the heirs received another painting from that Berlin exhibition, having filled it from the Swiss Museum.

№ 2. Vasily Kandinsky - $ 22.9 million.

The auction price of the work affects his reputation. This is not only a loud name of the artist, but also "Provanance" (origin). A thing from a famous private collection or a good museum is always more expensive than working from an anonymous meeting. The "Fugue" comes from the famous Museum of Gugenheim: Once the director Thomas Krenz brought out of the Museum Funds of this Kandinsky, the picture of Shagal and Modigliani, and set them for sale. For the money received, a museum for some reason purchased a collection of 200 works of American conceptualists. Krenza for this decision was convicted very long.

This is a canvas of the father of abstractionism curious about the fact that he set a record in the distant 1990s, when the auction halls of London and New York have not yet filled the reckless Russian buyers. Thanks to this, by the way, it did not cut into any very private collection in a luxurious mansion, but is located in a permanent exhibition in the Private Museum of Bayeliers in Switzerland, where anyone can see it. Rare case for such a purchase!

№ 3. Alexey Yalvsky - 9, 43 million pounds

Approximately $ 18.5 million paid an unknown buyer for a portrait, which depicts a girl from the village near Munich. Shokco is not a name, but nickname. The model, coming to the studio of the artist, each time she asked a cup of hot chocolate. So behind her and gothes "Shokko".

The sold picture is included in its famous loan cycle, depicting the domestic peasantry of the first quarter of the twentieth century. And, the right depicting with such belly, which is scary. Here in the form of a shepherd, the peasant poet Nikolai Klyuev, the Forerunner of Yesenin. Among his poems there are such: "On the sewer, the flashers decides disketeered and blocked - the light-kids dumbfounded from the gaznebushka far."

№ 19. Konstantin Makovsky - 2.03 million pounds

Makovsky - the saloon painter, known for the huge number of heads hawkering in Kokoshniki and Sundars, as well as the painting "Children running from thunderstorms", which one time was constantly printed on gift boxes of chocolate chocolates. Its sweet historical paintings are in stable demand among Russian buyers.

The theme of this picture- Old Russian "Kiss rite." Noble women on ancient Russia were not allowed to leave the female half, and only for the sake of honor, they could go out, bring the charm and (the most pleasant part) to kiss themselves. Pay attention to the picture hanging on the wall: this is the image of the king of Alexei Mikhailovich, one of the first horse portraits that appeared in Russia. His composition, although it was brazenly copied from a European sample, was considered an unusually innovative and even shocking for that time.

№20. Svyatoslav Roerich - $ 2.99 million.

The son of Nikolai Roerich left Russia by a completely teenager. He lived in England, USA, India. Like the Father, I was interested in Eastern philosophy. Like the Father, wrote a lot of paintings for Indian themes. Father generally occupied a huge place in his life - he wrote more than thirty his portraits. This picture was created in India, where the clan settled in the middle of the century. The pictures of Svyatoslav Roerich appear at auctions rarely, and in Moscow, the works of the famous dynasty can be seen in the halls of the East Museum, which the authors presented them, as well as at the Museum of the Museum "International Roerich Center", which is located in the luxurious noble estate right behind the Pushkin Museum. Both museums are not very loved by each other: the Museum of the East claims both the building and the collection of the center of Roerich.

№ 21. Ivan Shishkin - 1.87 million pounds

The chief Russian landscape player spent three years in a row on Valaam and left many images of this area. This work is a bit gloomy and does not look like a classic shishkina. But this is explained by the fact that the picture belongs to his early period, when he did not spoke his manner and was under the strong influence of the Dusseldorf Scenery Scene, in which he studied.

We have already recalled about this Düsseldorf school, in the recipe for fake "Aivazovsky". " Shishkina "are made according to the same scheme, for example, in 2004 onSotheby "S was a" landscape with a stream "Düsseldorf period of the painter. It was estimated at $ 1 million. And confirmed by the expertise of the Tretyakov Gallery. An hour before the sale lot was removed - it turned out to be a picture of another student of this school, the Dutchman Marinus Adriana Kookkuk, purchased In Sweden for 65 thousand dollars.

№ 22. Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin - 1.83 million pounds

A portrait of a boy with the icon of the Virgin was found in a private collection in Chicago. After he was handed over to the auction house, experts began research, trying to establish its origin. It turned out that the picture was at exhibitions in 1922 and 1932. In the 1930s, the artist went to the states as part of the exhibition of Russian art. Perhaps it was then that the owners acquired this picture.

Pay attention to an empty place on the wall behind the boy. At first the author thought to write a window with a green landscape there. It would balance the picture and on the composition and in colors - the grass would have echoed with the green Tunica of Our Lady (by the way, she should be blue on the canon). Why Petrov-Vodkin crushed the window - unknown.

№ 23. Nikolay Roerich - 1.76 million pounds

Before you visit Shambalu and start corresponding with Dalai Lama, Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerich quite successfully specialized in an old Russian theme and even did ballet sketches for the "Russian seasons". Sold lot refers to this period. The depicted scene is a wonderful phenomenon over water, which is observed by the Russian monk, most likely - Sergius Radonezh. It is curious that the picture is written in the same year that another vision of Sergia (then the tag of the warfolome), which appears in our list above. The stylistic difference is colossal.

Roerich wrote many cloths and a lion's share of them in India. Several pieces he presented the Indian Institute of Agricultural Research. Recently two of them, "Himalayas, Kanchenjang" and "Sunset, Kashmir "Appeared at the auction in London. Only then the younger researchers of the institute noticed that they were robbed. In January 2011, the Indians appealed to the London court for permission to investigate this crime in England. The interest of the thieves to the heritage of Roerich is understandable, because there is a demand.

№ 24. Love Popova - 1.7 million pounds

Lyubov Popova died young, so it was famous as another Amazon Avangard Natalia Goncharov, failed. And her a heritage is smaller - therefore it is difficult to find her work. After her death was drawn up detailed inventions of paintings. This still life has been known for many years only on black and white reproductions, until it surfaced in a private collection, being the most significant work of the artist in private hands. Pay attention to the Zhostovsky tray - maybe it is a hint of the taste of Popova to folk crafts. It took place from the Ivanovsky merchant family, which was engaged in fabrics, and herself created many sketches of campaign textiles based on Russian traditions.

№ 25. Aristarh Lentulov - 1.7 million pounds

Lentulov entered the history of the Russian avant-garde to the memorable image of the Cathedral of Basil Blessed - not that cubism, not that patchwork blanket. In this landscape, he tries to crush space along a similar principle, but it turns out not so fascinating. Actually, therefore "Vasily Blessed»In the Tretyakov Gallery, and this picture- on the art market. Still, once the museum workers had the opportunity to shoot cream.

№ 26. Alexey Bogolyubov - 1.58 million pounds

Sale of this little-known artist, albeit the beloved landscape player Tsar Alexander III, for such insane money - the symptom of market rabies on the eve of the 2008 crisis. Then the Russian collectors were ready to buy even secondary masters. Moreover, first-class artists are sold rarely.

Perhaps this picture went as a gift to some official: she has a suitable plot, because the Church of Christ the Savior has long ceased to be just a church, and became a symbol. And the leiser origin - the picture was kept in the royal palace. Pay attention to the details: the brick Kremlin tower is covered with white plaster, and the hill inside the Kremlin is completely superfluous. Well, why began to try? In the 1870s, the capital was Petersburg, not Moscow, and the Kremlin was not a residence.

№ 27. Isaac Levitan - 1.56 million pounds

The work was perfect atypical for Levitan, the work was sold on the same auction as the picture of Bogolyubov, but it turned out to be cheaper. This is due, of course, with the fact that the picture is not like "Levitan " The authorship of her, however, is undoubtedly similar to the plot in the Dnipropetrovsk Museum. 40 thousand light bulbs, with the help of which the Kremlin was decorated, lit in honor of the coronation of Nicholas II. A few days later the Khodyan catastrophe will happen.

№ 28. Archka Quinji - $ 3 million.

The famous landscape player wrote three similar paintings. The first is in Tretyakovka, the third - in the State Museum of Belarus. The second, presented at the auction, was intended for Prince Pavel Pavlovich Demidov-San Donato. This representative of the famous Ural dynasty lived at the villa near Florence. In general, Demidov, becoming Italian princes, was entertained as they could. For example, Uncle Paul, from which he inherited the princely title was so rich and impressed that he was married to Napoleon's niece of Bonaparte, and one day in a bad mood of her senses. The poor lady hardly was able to achieve a divorce. The picture, however, did not get to Demidov, the Ukrainian Sakharozavoder Tereshchenko acquired it.

№ 29. Konstantin Korovin- 1.497 million pounds

Impressionists inherent very "light", smearing the style of the letter.Korovin - the main Russian impressionist. It is very popular among scammers; According to rumors, the number of his fakes at auctions reaches 80%. If the picture from the private assembly was exhibited at the artist's personal exhibition in the famous State Museum, then its reputation is reinforced, and in the next auction it is much more expensive. In 2012, the Tretyakov Gallery plans a large-scale exhibition of Korovin. Maybe there will be work from private assembly. This paragraph is an example of the reader's consciousness manipulation by an example of transfer of facts that have a direct logical connection.

• Please note that from March 26 to August 12, 2012, the Tretyakov Gallery promises to arrangeexhibition Korovina . Details about the biography of the most charming artists of the Silver Century Readin our review Vernissages GTG in 2012.

No. 30. Yuri Annenkov - $ 2.26 million

Annenkov managed to emigrate in 1924 and made a good career in the West. For example, in 1954 he was nominated for Oscar as an artist in the costumes for the film "Madame de ...". The most famous of his early Soviet portraits- Faces of cubistic, faceted, but completely recognizable. For example, he repeatedly drew the Lion Trotsky in this way - and even repeated the picture many years later after the memory when Times wanted to decorate them with the cover.

Character - writer Tikhonov-Silver Pictured on a record portrait. He entered the history of Russian literature, mainly his close friendship with. So close that, on dirty rumors, the wife of the artist Varvara Shaikevich even gave birth to a daughter from the great proletarian writer. On the reproduction is not very noticeable, but the portrait is made in the collage technique: on top of the oil paint layer there are glass and plaster, and even a real doorbell has been attached.

No. 31. Lev Lagorio - 1.47 million pounds

Another secondary landscape system, for some reason sold for a record price. One of the indicators of the auction is the excess of estimate ("estimates") - the minimum price, which experts of the auction house installed for lot. The estimate of this landscape was 300-400 thousand pounds., And sold it 4 times more expensive. As one London Auctioner said: "Happiness is when two Russian oligarch compete in the same subject. "

№ 32. Victor Vasnetsov - 1.1 million pounds

Bogatyri became a business card back in the 1870s. He returns to his star theme, like other veterans of Russian painting, during the young Soviet republic - and on financial reasons, and to feel in demand again. This picture is the author's repetition "Ilya Muromets" (1915), which is kept in the House-Museum of the artist (on the avenue of the world).

No. 33. Eric Bulatov - 1.084 million pounds

The second current artist on our list (also said that for the artist the best way to raise prices for their work is to die). By the way, this is the Soviet Warhol, underground and anti-communist. He worked in the genre of social art, which was created by the Soviet undergrad, as our version of pop art. "Slava CPSU" is one of the most famous works of the artist. According to his own explanations, the letters here symbolize the grille, blocking the sky from us, that is, freedom.

Bonus: Zinaida Serebryakova - 1.07 million pounds

Serebryakova loved to draw nude women, self-portraits and their four children. This perfect feminist world is harmonious and calm, which you will not say about the life of the artist itself, who hardly escaped from Russia after the revolution and spent a lot of strength to pull out his children from there.

"Nude" is not an oil painting, but a pattern of pastel. This is the most expensive Russian drawing. Such a high amount paid for graphics is comparable with prices for the drawings of Impressionists and caused great surprise at Sotheby "S, which began trading from 150 thousand pounds of sterling, and received a million.

The list is based on the prices specified on the official sites of the auction houses. This price is made up of pure value (voiced when the hammer is lowered), and« buyer premiums "(additional percentage of auction house). In other sources can be indicated "Clean» price. The dollar rate to Pound often fluctuates, so British and American lots are located relative to each other with approximate accuracy (we are not forbes).

Additions and fixes of our list are welcome.

If you think that all the great artists remained in the past, then you can not even imagine how much you are mistaken. In this article you will learn about the most famous and talented artists of our time. And believe me, their work will be in your memory no less deeply than the work of the maestro from the past eras.

Wojciech Babski.

Wojca Babski is a modern Polish artist. He graduated from studying at the Silesian Polytechnic Institute, but also related to. Recently draws, mostly women. Focusing on the manifestation of emotions, seeks to get as much effect as possible by simple means.

Loves color, but often uses shades of black and gray to achieve the best impression. It is not afraid to experiment with different new technicians. Recently, increasingly gaining popularity abroad, mainly in the UK, where with success sells its works, which can already be found in many private collections. In addition to art, it is interested in cosmology and philosophy. Listens to jazz. Currently lives and works in the city of Katowice.

Warren Chang.

Warren Chang is a modern American artist. Born in 1957 and grew up in Monteree, California, with honors graduated from the College of Design Art Center in Pasaden in 1981, where he received a bachelor's degree in fine arts in the area. Over the next two decades, he worked as an illustrator for various companies in California and New York, before in 2009 to start a career of a professional artist.

Its realistic paintings can be divided into two main categories: biographical interior pictures and paintings depicting working people. His interest in such a manner of painting goes its roots to the artist of the 16th century artist Jan Vermeer, and applies to objects, self-portraits, portraits of family members, friends, students, studio interiors, class and houses. His goal is to create mood and emotions in their realistic paintings using the manipulation of light and the use of muffled colors.

Chang became known after the transition to traditional visual art. Over the past 12 years, he earned a lot of awards and honorary titles, the most prestigious of them - Master Signature from the Association of Artists by America Oil, the largest Oil artists community in the United States. Only one person out of 50, receives the opportunity to get this award. Currently, Warren lives in Monteree and works in his studio, he also teach (known as a talented teacher) at the Academy of Arts San Francisco.

Aurelio Bruni.

Aurelio Bruni is an Italian artist. Bored in the city of Bler, October 15, 1955. He received a diploma in the specialty Scenic in the Institute of Art in Spoleto. As an artist, he is self-taught, as he "erected the house of knowledge" on the foundation laid down at school. Draw oil began at the age of 19. Currently lives and works in Umbria.

The early painting of Bruni goes its roots into surrealism, but over time he begins to focus on the proximity of lyrical romanticism and symbolism, strengthening this combination of exquisite refinement and the purity of his characters. Animate and inanimate objects acquire equal dignity and look, almost, hyperely, but, at the same time, do not hide behind the curtain, but allow you to see the essence of your soul. Multi-faceted and sophistication, sensuality and loneliness, thoughtfulness and fruitfulness are the spirit of Aurelio Bruni, feeding the magnificence of art and harmony of music.

Alekasander Balos.

Alkasander Balos is a modern Polish artist who specializes in the oil area. 1970 was born in Gliwice, Poland, but since 1989 he lives and works in the United States, in the city of Shasta, California.

As a child, he studied art under the leadership of his father Yana, self-taught and sculptor artist, therefore, from an early age, the artistic activity received full support from both parents. In 1989, at the age of eighteen, Balos left Poland in the USA, where his school teacher and part-time artist Katie Gaggliadi prompted Alkassandra to enter an art school. Then Balos received a complete university scholarship in Milwaukee Wisconsin, where he studied painting at Professor Harry Rosina philosophy.

After completing studies in 1995 and the degree of bacheloring Balos moved to Chicago to enroll in school at the School of Fine Art, whose methods are based on the work of Jacques-Louis David. Figurative realism and portrait painting constituted most of the works of Balos in the 90s and early 2000s. Today, Balos uses a human figure in order to emphasize the features and show the shortcomings of human being, without proposing, while there are no decisions.

The plot compositions of his paintings are intended to be independently interpreted by the viewer, only then the canvas will acquire their true temporary and subjective meaning. In 2005, the artist moved to Northern California, since then the subject of his work has significantly expanded and now includes more free painting methods, including abstraction and various multimedia styles, helping to express ideas and ideals of being through painting.

Alyssa Monks.

Alissa Monsx is a modern American artist. Born in 1977, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Began to be interested in painting when she was still a child. He studied at the New School in New York and the Monkler State University, and graduating from the Boston College in 1999, received a bachelor's degree. At the same time, she studied painting at the Academy Lorenzo Medici in Florence.

Then he continued studying the program to the Master's degree in the New York Academy of Art, at the Department of Figurative Art, graduated from 2001. In 2006, she graduated from Fullerton College. For some time I lectured at universities and educational institutions across the country, taught painting in the New York Academy of Art, as well as Monkler's State University and College of the Laima Academy of Arts.

"Using filters, such as glass, vinyl, water and steam, I distort the human body. These filters make it possible to create large areas of abstract design, with eyelash-colored islands through them - parts of the human body.

My paintings are changing a modern look at the already established, traditional poses and gestures of swimming women. They could tell a lot to the attentive viewer about such, it would seem, of course, as well as the use of swimming, dancing, and so on. My characters are pressed against the glass window of the shower cabin, distorting his own body, realizing that there are thereby affect the notorious male look at the naked woman. Thick layers of paint are mixed so that from afar to imitate glass, pair, water and flesh. However, the amazing physical properties of oil paint are becoming obvious. Experimenting with layers of paint and color, I find the moment when abstract strokes are becoming something else.

When I just started drawing a human body, I was immediately fascinated and even became obsessed and thought that I had to make my paintings as realistic as possible. I "confessed" realism until he began to unravel and open contradictions in herself. Now I am investigating the possibilities and potential of the letter manner, where there are representative painting and abstraction - if both styles can coexist in the same time, I will do it. "

Antonio Finelli.

Italian artist - " Observer of Time"- Antonio Finelli was born on February 23, 1985. Currently lives and works in Italy between Rome and Campobasso. His works were exhibited in several galleries in Italy and abroad: Rome, Florence, Novara, Genoa, Palermo, Istanbul, Ankara, New York, can also be found in private and state collections.

Pencil drawings " Time observer"Antonio Phinelli send us to an eternal journey through the inner world of human template and associated with a scrupulous analysis of this world, the main element of which is to pass through the time and the traces applied to them.

Finelli writes portraits of people of any age, gender and nationality, the expressions of whose persons testify to passing through time, the artist hopes to find evidence of the mercability of time on the bodies of their characters. Antonio determines its works by one, common name: "Self-portrait", because in his pencil drawings, he does not simply depict a person, but allows the viewer to contemplate the real results of the passage of time inside a person.

Flaminia Carloni.

Flaming Karloni is an Italian artist 37th, daughter of a diplomat. She has three children. Twelve years lived in Rome, three years in England and France. Received a diploma in the field of art history at the School of Art BD. Then he received a diploma in the specialty restorer works of art. Before finding your calling and completely devote yourself to painting, she worked as a journalist, colorist, designer, actress.

The passion for painting in Flaming has arisen in childhood. Its main environment is oil, because she loves "Coiffer La Pate" and also play with the material. Similar equipment, she learned in the works of the artist Pascal Torya. Flaming is inspired by great masters of painting, such as Baltuse, Hopper, and Francois Legran, as well as various artistic movements: Street Art, Chinese Realism, Surrealism and Realization of the Renaissance. Her favorite artist Caravaggio. Her dream to open the therapeutic force of art.

Denis Chernov.

Denis Chernov is a talented Ukrainian artist, born in 1978 in Sambor, Lviv region, Ukraine. After the end of the Kharkov Art School in 1998, he remained in Kharkov, where he currently lives and works. He also studied at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, the Department of Chart, graduated from it in 2004.

It regularly participates in art exhibitions, at the moment they took place more than sixty, both in Ukraine and abroad. Most of the works of Denis Chernov are stored in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Italy, England, Spain, Greece, France, USA, Canada and Japan. Some works were sold to Christis.

Denis works in a wide range of graphic and scenic techniques. Paintings with a pencil - one of the most beloved methods of painting, the list of topics of his pencil drawings is also very diverse, he writes landscapes, portraits, nude, genre compositions, books illustrations, literary and historical reconstruction and fantasy.

Magnificent works of art's arts of great masters are able to surprise even people for whom art means little. That is why world name museums are among the most popular attractions that attract millions of visitors a year.

To stand out from a huge number of paintings written in the history of art, the artist needs not just talent, but also the ability to express a unique plot of an unusual and very relevant way for its time.

The pictures presented below loudly declare not only about the talent of their authors, but also about numerous cultural trends that appeared and disappeared, and the most important historical events that have always been reflected in art.

"Birth of Venus"

This picture, written by the grand master of the revival of Sandro Botticelli, depicts the moment of the appearance of the beautiful Venus from the sea foam. One of their most attractive aspects of the picture is a modest pose of the goddess and its simple, but a beautiful face.

"Dogs play poker"

Written by Kassius Kulij in 1903, a series of 16 paintings depicts dogs collected by poker playing around a magazine or playing table. Many critics recognize these pictures by the canonical image of Americans that era.

Portrait of Madame Reamenier

This portrait written by Jacques-Louis David, depicts a brilliant secular diva in a contrast minimalist and simple setting, dressed in a simple white sleeveless dress. This is a vivid example of neoclassicism in portrait art.

№5

This famous picture written by Jackson Pollock is the most iconic work that brightly depicts all the chaos that raged in the soul and the mind of the midfield. This is one of the most expensive work ever sold by the American artist.

"Son of Man"

The "Son of Man", written by Renie Magritte, is a kind of self-portrait depicting the artist himself in a black suit, but with an apple instead of face.

"Number 1" ("Royal Red and Blue")

This is a fairly fresh work written by Mark Rotko, no more than a stroke of three different shades on handmade canvas. Currently, the picture is exhibited at the Institute of Arts in Chicago.

"Beating innocent"

On the basis of the biblical history about the murder of innocent babies in Bethlehem, Peter Paul Rubens created this terrible and cruel picture that affects the emotions of everyone who looks at her.

"Sunday day on the island of Grand-Zhatt"

Created by George sulfur, this unique and very popular picture depicts a relaxed day off atmosphere in a big city. Such painting is an excellent example of Pointilism, which combines into one entire set of points.

"Dance"

"Dance" Henri Matissea is an example of a style called Formism, which is distinguished by bright, practically unnatural colors and forms and high dynamics.

"American Gothic"

"American Gothic" is a work of art, ideally symbolizing the image of Americans during the Great Depression. In this picture, Grant Wood depicted a strict, probably a religious pair, standing against a simple house with windows in the Gothic style.

"Loader of flowers"

This picture of the most popular Mexican painter of the twentieth century - Diego River, depicts a person who barely carries a basket overloaded with bright tropical flowers.

"Mother Whistler"

Also known as "arrangement in gray and black. Mother of the artist", this is one of the most famous paintings of the American artist James Whistler. In this picture, Whistler depicted his mother sitting on a chair, against a gray wall. The picture uses only black and gray shades.

"The Persistence of Memory"

This is a cult work of no less religious Salvador Dali, famous for the entire world of the Spanish surrealist, who has given this movement to advanced arts.

Portrait of Dara Maar.

Pablo Picasso is one of the most popular and influential Spanish painters. He is the founder of the styled in his time, called Cubism, who seeks to crush any object and transfer it to clear geometric shapes. This picture is the first portrait in the style of cubism.

"Portrait of an artist without beard"

This picture of Van Gogh is a self-portrait, and unique because it depicts a painter without a habitual beard. In addition, this is one of the few paintings by Van Gogh, which were sold in private collections.

"Night terrace cafe"

Winged Van Gogh written by Vincent, this picture depicts the usual sight is completely new, using surprisingly bright colors and unusual forms.

"Composition VIII"

Vasily Kandinsky is recognized as the founder of abstract art - style that uses forms and symbols instead of the usual items and people. "Composition VIII" is one of the first paintings painted exclusively in this style.

"Kiss"

One of the first artistic works in the Art Nouveau style, this picture is almost completely fulfilled in gold tones. The picture of Gustav Clima is one of the brightest pieces of style.

"Ball in Moulin de la Gaette"

Piece Pierre Renuara Pierre is a bright and dynamic image of urban life. In addition, it is one of the most expensive paintings in the world.

"Olympia"

In the picture "Olympia", Edward Mana created this contradiction, practically scandal, as a naked woman with a close look is clearly a mistress, not veiled by myths of the classical period. This one of the early work in the style of realism.

"The third of May 1808 in Madrid"

In this work, Francisco Goya portrayed Napoleon's attack on the Spaniards. This is one of the first Spanish paintings that draw war in negative light.

"Menins"

The most famous picture of Diego Velasquez depicts a five-year-old infanta Margarita against the background of her parents written by Velasquez.

"Portrait of Arnolphin Fours"

This picture is one of the oldest works of painting. She was written by Jan Van Eykom and depicts an Italian businessman Giovanni Arnolphini and his pregnant wife in their home in Brugge.

"Creek"

The picture of the Norwegian artist Edward Minka is depicting a person distorted by fear on the background of a bloody-red sky. Landscape in the background adds a gloomy charm this picture. In addition, Creek is one of the first paintings made in the style of expressionism, where realism is minimized to ensure more freedom for emotions.

"Sweets"

"Sweatshirts" written by Claude Monet are part of a series of 250 paintings depicting elements of the artist's own garden. These paintings are exhibited in various artistic museums of the world.

"Starlight Night"

"Star Night" Van Gogh is one of the most famous images in modern culture. It is currently exposed to the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

"Fall of Ikara"

This picture, written by the Dutch artist Peter Breighele, shows the indifference of a person to suffering from his neighbors. A strong social theme is shown here in a pretty simple way, using the image of the ICAR, drowning under water, and people who ignore His suffering.

"Creation of Adam"

"Creation of Adam" is one of the several magnificent Mokelangelo fresco, adorning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican Palace. It shows the creation of Adam. In addition to the image of the ideal human forms, the fresco is one of the first in the history of the art of attempts to portray God.

"Last Supper"

This fresco of the Great Leonardo depicts the last dinner of Jesus to his betrayal, arrest and death. In addition to the composition, forms and paints, the discussion of this fresco is Pepit theories about hidden symbols and the presence of Mary Magdalen next to Jesus.

"Gernik"

"Gernik" Picasso depicts the explosion of the Spanish city of the same name during the Spanish Civil War. This is a black and white picture, negatively depicting fascism, Nazism and their ideas.

"Girl with pearl earring"

This picture of Johannes Vermeer is often called the Dutch Mona Lisa, not only because of its extraordinary popularity, but also because the expression on the face of the girl is difficult to catch and explain.

"Decoration of John the Baptist"

Picture of Caravaggio very realistic portraits the moment of killing John the Baptist in prison. It is filtered with the paintings and expressions of her characters make it a true classic masterpiece.

"The night Watch"

"Night Watch" is one of the most famous paintings of Rembrandt. It depicts a group portrait of a rifle company led by its officers. The unique aspect of the picture is to be seed, which gives the impression of the night scene.

"Athens School"

Written by Raphael in his early Roman period, this fresco depicts famous Greek philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Euclidean, Socrates, Pythagoras and others. Many philosophers are depicted in the form of contemporaries of Rafael, for example, Plato - Leonardo da Vinci, Heraclit - Michelangelo, Euclidean - Bramte.

"Mona Lisa"

Probably the most famous picture in the world is "Dzokonda" Leonardo da Vinci, better known as "Mona Lisa". This canvas is the portrait of Mrs. Gerardini, attracting the attention of the mysterious expression of the face.