Teh One Who Knocks
05-09-2012, 07:35 PM
The Sun
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AN anonymous collector has paid a record £53.8MILLION for a painting made up of blocks of orange and yellow paint on a red background.
The price for Mark Rothko's 1961 piece called - unsurprisingly - Orange, red, yellow is the highest ever achieved for contemporary art at auction.
The painting went under the hammer at Christie's in New York during an auction of post-war art that fetched £240.5MILLION.
Last week, Edvard Munch's 1895 version of The Scream set a new overall world auction record after selling for £74million.
Before yesterday's sale the highest-grossing Rothko painting cost £45million.
Francis Bacon's Triptych was previously the most expensive contemporary artwork having sold for £53.4million in 2008.
An iconic painting by French artist Yves Klein created with water, a blowtorch and two models sold for £22.6million.
Christie’s auction house said “FC 1” set an auction record for the artist on Tuesday night. The painting was sold to an anonymous buyer, Christie’s said.
The painting was finished a few weeks before the artist’s death in 1962 at age 34 and is considered to be his masterpiece. It was offered for sale by an anonymous Swiss collector.
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AN anonymous collector has paid a record £53.8MILLION for a painting made up of blocks of orange and yellow paint on a red background.
The price for Mark Rothko's 1961 piece called - unsurprisingly - Orange, red, yellow is the highest ever achieved for contemporary art at auction.
The painting went under the hammer at Christie's in New York during an auction of post-war art that fetched £240.5MILLION.
Last week, Edvard Munch's 1895 version of The Scream set a new overall world auction record after selling for £74million.
Before yesterday's sale the highest-grossing Rothko painting cost £45million.
Francis Bacon's Triptych was previously the most expensive contemporary artwork having sold for £53.4million in 2008.
An iconic painting by French artist Yves Klein created with water, a blowtorch and two models sold for £22.6million.
Christie’s auction house said “FC 1” set an auction record for the artist on Tuesday night. The painting was sold to an anonymous buyer, Christie’s said.
The painting was finished a few weeks before the artist’s death in 1962 at age 34 and is considered to be his masterpiece. It was offered for sale by an anonymous Swiss collector.