interested by Auction's result in london..or the WORLD AUCTION RECORD for any living FRENCH Artist?
Read the article in the NEW YORK TIMES...
London Auctions Highlight Insatiable Appetite for Contemporary Art
............The great success story of the day was Martial Raysse. The French artist, born in 1936, was painting in his youth portraits that are as ultrasimplified as New York school Pop Art images but differ markedly in feeling with their expressionistic handling in abruptly contrasted colors.
“L’année dernière à Capri (titre exotique)” (Last Year in Capri (exotic title), portraying a young woman, could have been done as a poster. A discreet touch of Surrealism sets the portrait further apart from Pop Art. Its owner, who acquired the Raysse in 1975, was selling it for the benefit of a charitable foundation. Perhaps stirred by such prolonged faithfulness to the artist on the vendor’s part, bidders went berserk. They sent the Raysse shooting to £4.07 million. This set a world auction record not just for Raysse, but for any living French artist.........
READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE :http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/arts/19iht-melikian19.html?pagewanted=1&ref=arts
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