The British painter David Hockney, with the painting “Portrait of an Artist (Two Figures in the Pool)”, sold for 90.3 million dollars, was the owner of the highest amount paid to a living artist’s work at auction.
British painter David Hockney’s New York auction “Portrait of an Artist (Two Figures in the Pool)” painting for $ 90.3 found buyers. The price for Hockney’s painting exceeded the $ 58.4 million paid in 2013 for the American artist Jeff Koon’s “Balloon Dog” sculpture, the highest amount paid to a living artist’s work.
The competition between two people who were connected to the Christie’s Auction House by telephone took 9 minutes. Prior to the sale, the auction house announced that the painting was “one of the most important works of the modern era” and the value of the painting was around $ 80 million. The auction house did not provide any explanation as to the identity of the seller and the buyer of the painting.
“The painting reflects the European and American perspectives of an artist who came to live in sunny California in the 1960s and saw himself living on two continents,” commented Alex Hockney, Vice President of Christie’s Auction House, about Hockney’s famous work before the auction. He had been found. Asked whether the work really worth $ 90 million Rotter, “Absolutely… This unique piece belongs to one of the most important artists living,” he commented. Rotter said that the painting was considered one of the most valuable works of the artist in terms of both its historical value and its value in the art market.
Hockney’s painting in 1972 was sold for $ 20,000 in the same year, and the second sale, which took place 6 months later, found buyers for 50 thousand dollars.
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