New York launches new auction season

After Salvatore Monde's record $ 450 million prize last year and the sale of his Rockefeller family, New York launches a new season on Sunday, seeking to satisfy the world's appetite for art, especially with bands. such as David Hockney and Edward Hopper.

Adrian Meyer, one of the leaders of Impressionism and Contemporary Art at Christie's in New York, said the auction at which Rockefeller had sold his works in May last had generated revenues of $ 832 million, double the previous record, "proved that the market was deep enough to accommodate a large amount of work at the same time."

"Since we passed this test, everything is possible."

The fall auction, which runs from Sunday to Thursday, includes many other groups, including the return of American investor Barney Ipsworth, who died in April.

In six decades, this man, who made his fortune working in the tourism and cruise industry, has been able to form one of the largest collections of contemporary American art in the world.

The highlight of Christie's auction collection will be "Chop Sway" 1929, a painting by the American painter Edward Hopper, valued between $ 70 million and $ 100 million.

The painting, purchased by Ipsworth for $ 180,000 in 1973, should enable the artist to break a new record, surpassing $ 40.4 million, the sale price of East Windover Wehawken in 2013.

From generation to generation

Leonardo da Vinci's fantastic record of Salvatore Monde at the March 2017 auction of $ 450.3 million will certainly be at the top of the most expensive paintings of all time, but it is possible to pass several works this season, the $ 100 million threshold has already jumped 12 plates.

In addition to Edward Hopper, the British painter David Hockney, with his portrait Portrait of an Artist (Paul The Toe Vigors), is among the candidates for record breaking auction records.

If the painting is sold at an estimated $ 80 million, it will set a new record for an artist still alive, a figure currently recorded under the name of Jeff Koons with his work "Balloon Dogg (Orange)", which s & rsquo; Is sold at $ 58.4 million in 2013..

"We can rarely say," It's the right time to buy the best painting for the artist, but this time it will be possible, "said Anna Maria Silis, vice president of Christie's & # 39; 39; s for postwar art and contemporary art.

With more than 1,000 jobs and revenues expected to exceed $ 1 billion, Christie's should further strengthen its dominance over the weeks of auctioning around the world.

Although not offset by the expected labor price of its main rival, Sotheby's will also have a significant stake with dozens of coins, each worth at least $ 10 million.

Among these pieces is the "pre-portrait" of Marsden Hartley, one of the first American artists to be fully involved in abstract art since 1913.

Like Hockney and Huber, Hartley, with $ 30 million, is set to set a new personal best, as will Rene Magdreet, Vasily Kandinsky and Willem de Conning, an indicator of the vitality of the art market.

"We have always made efforts so that our auctions are not too big," says Gregorio Pew, director of contemporary art at Sotheby's Contemporary Art. "We want to be different and closer to our time by trusting that the younger generations say they want to buy.

For years, the big auctions have been the scene of a new generation of more globalized partnerships than the previous generation.

These events also help to revive interest in missing work for decades.

This is particularly the case of Jean-Michel Basquea, who sold many of his works during his lifetime, according to Gregorio Pio.