The good moment he is going through online occupied our blog a few weeks ago. And in this time, acts of vandalism have destroyed more than 70 pieces of art from the famous Museum island in Berlin, causing incalculable damage. In De Salas, this has led us to ask ourselves that if it is impossible to calculate, how much does the ? So we have decided to find out which are, for example, the five paintings with the most zeros in history. Because yes, the costs. And a lot.
According to a BBVA study called The art of investing in art, “97% of buyers of They confess that their first purchase motivation is for a purely emotional aspect, while 49% mention being driven by the pure return on investment, the latter percentage that has increased noticeably in recent years.
So, what are, in economic terms, the most expensive paints? The first prize goes to Leonardo da Vinci, with his Salvador Mundic. It is an oil painting drawn by the genius around the year 1500. Auctioned by Christie's In November 2017, its estimated value was 91,4 million euros. But it was acquired by a private collector for a whopping amount of 411,72 million euros.
In the second place of this monetize the , we find a tie, with When are you getting married?, by Paul Gauguin, and Exchangeby Willem Kooning. The first was painted in French Polynesia in 1892, and sold for more than 174 million euros in a private sale in 2015. The second, painted by one of the leaders of abstract expressionism in 1955, reached the same price in 2016. , and was acquired by the billionaire Ken Griffin.
Third place is occupied by Paul Cezanne and his card players, of which there are several versions, including from four characters to the two that occupy this canvas, and which became increasingly darker. He was sold to the royal family of Qatar for 229 million euros.
The drip technique of the father of abstract expressionism, Jackson Pollock, places his work Number 17A in fourth place. This innovative process has its greatest example in this canvas, painted in 1948, which was sold for 183 million euros to the same billionaire. Ken Griffin that was made with the Exchange, both in the same private sale in 2016 carried out by the producer David Geffen, director of film studios Dreamworks and the 60th fortune in the world.
And fifth place goes to Nº6 (Violet, Green and Red), by Mark Rothko. Painted in 1951, it was acquired by the Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev in 2014, not without controversy, as it is involved in a fraud matter between this businessman and the merchant of Swiss Yves Bouvier.
So yeah, the It costs a lot, we corroborate it. And we understand the director of the Museum island when at a press conference he said that there would be no way to repair the damage that had been done to his pieces. In De Salas, that we love , We are totally agreed. And without a doubt we would love to be able to admire, if not have, any of these wonderful works.
Gala Mora
DESALAS Lifestyle
