Art Newspaper Russia has released a new first 50 points. Russia’s most expensive live artists. “First, Eric Bulatov, whose works have been regarded as a standard of contemporary art for a long time and sold in a record amount in world auctions.
The artist headed to the list after the departure of Ilya Kabakov, who had previously leading. Bulatov became famous for its canvases where text and image were intertwined in a special visual system. The creative path began in the Soviet time – it was an illustrator of the children’s books and then went abroad. He has been living in New York and Paris since the end of the 1980s, but has been actively involved in Russian projects.
Interest in his work has not faded for several decades. Thus, in 2021, the “Sky” official went to the auction of MacDougall for 814 thousand dollars (about 65 million rubles) and 1985 Sky and the sea were sold for $ 1.3 million (about 105 billion rubles) in Sotheby’s. At the same time, Bulatov’s record remains in 2008 with 1975 Glory CPSU, which was sold in Phillips for 2.1 million dollars (about 170 billion rubles).
Rating is based on auctional auction. Experts say that the market is still turning to traditional species and masters with a long career. The average age of the participants on the list was 72 years and the smallest person was the fifth or even immediately output, Sanya Kantarovsky.
Today, 92 years old, Bulatov is still in the spotlight. Exhibitions are regularly organized in Russia in 2023 Nizhny Novgorod celebrated the artist’s 90th anniversary with a large -scale project, and a year later, the Multimedia in Moscow, the Museum of Art, separated him a major retrospective. All this only confirms the main living classic status of the main living classic of indigenous contemporary art.
Meanwhile, previous rare works of Russian artists left a record quantity. This time, the collectors not only have artistic value, but also have also attracted works that promise profitable investments.
Source: People Talk
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