The Art Newspaper Russia presents a rating: the most expensive living artists of Russia. If you are still sure that there were no Russian artists in the western cage and there is not, we are ready to argue with that. The language of numbers.
The conditions were simple: each of the living artists could be represented by only one, their most expensive work. When compiling the rating, not only the results of public auctions were taken into account, but also the most high-profile private sales. The authors of the rating were guided by the principle “if something sells loudly, then someone needs it”, and therefore appreciated the work of marketers and press managers of artists who brought record private sales to the public. Important note: the rating is based solely on financial indicators; if it was based on the exhibition activity of artists, it would look a little different. Resources served as external sources for analytics Artnet.com, Artprice.com, Skatepress.com And Artinvestment.ru.
The US dollar was chosen as the currency of the world rating, and the British pound sterling was taken as the equivalent of the sales of Russian artists (since 90% of domestic sales took place in London in this currency). The remaining 10% of works sold in US dollars and euros were recalculated at the exchange rate at the time of the transaction, as a result of which some positions changed places. In addition to the actual cost of the work, data were collected on the total capitalization of artists (the number of top works sold at auction for all years), on the place of a contemporary artist in the ranking of artists of all time, on the place of the most expensive work of a participant among all sold works of other authors, and also about nationality and country of residence. Important information is also contained in the statistics of repeated sales of each artist as an objective indicator of investment
attractiveness.
Last year, 2013, significantly changed the positions of contemporary artists in the international sales ranking. Of the top 50 most expensive works of art, 16 modern ones were sold last season - a record number (for comparison, 17 works were sold from 2010 to 2012, only one sale falls on the twentieth century). The demand for living artists is partly identical to the demand for all contemporary art, partly to the cynical understanding that the capitalization of assets after their death will invariably increase.
Among the Russian participants, the most respected were the brothers Sergey And Alexey Tkachevy(b. 1922 and 1925), the youngest - Anatoly Osmolovsky(b. 1969). The question is who will be the new Jean-Michel Basquiat while open. Clear classes of buyers are visible in the sales of our artists: leaders are bought by foreign collectors and Russian oligarchs, places from 10th to 30th are provided by emigrant collectors, and the conditional bottom of the top 50 is our future, young collectors with “new » money.
1. Ilya Kabakov
It seems that in general the main Russian artist (which does not prevent Kabakov, who was born in Dnepropetrovsk, from painting himself Ukrainian), the founding father of Moscow conceptualism (one of them), the author of the term and practice of “total installation”. Since 1988 he has been living and working in New York. He works in collaboration with his wife, Emilia Kabakov, which is why the title should look like "Ilya and Emilia Kabakov", but since Ilya Iosifovich became known earlier than Ilya and Emilia, then let it stay that way. Works are in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, MoMA, Kolodzei Art Foundation(USA), etc.
Year of birth: 1933
Product: "Beetle". 1982
Date of sale: 28.02.2008
Price (GBP)1: 2,932,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 10,686,000
Seat: 1
Average cost per job (GBP): 117,429
Number of repeat sales: 12
2. Eric Bulatov
Using techniques that would later be called Sots Art, he combined figurative painting with text in his works. In Soviet times, a successful illustrator of children's books. Since 1989 he has been living and working in New York, since 1992 in Paris. The first Russian artist with a solo exhibition at the Pompidou Center. The works are kept in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pompidou Center, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, etc., are included in the collections of the Foundation Dina Verny, Victor Bondarenko, Vyacheslav Kantor, Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.
Year of birth: 1933
Artwork: "Glory to the CPSU". 1975
Date of sale: 28.02.2008
Price (GBP)1: 1,084,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 8,802,000
Seat: 2
Average cost per job (GBP): 163,000
Number of repeat sales: 11
3. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid
The creators of Sots Art - a scurrilous trend in unofficial art, parodying the symbols and techniques of officialdom. They have lived in New York since 1978. Until the mid-2000s, they worked in pairs. As an art project, they organized the "sale of souls" of famous artists through an auction (soul Andy Warhol since then owned by the Moscow artist Alena Kirtsova). Works are in the collections of the MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, in the collections Shalva Breus, Daria Zhukova And Roman Abramovich and etc.
Year of birth: 1943, 1945
Work: "Meeting of Solzhenitsyn and Böll at Rostropovich's dacha". 1972
Date of sale: 23.04.2010
Price (GBP)1: 657 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 3,014,000
Seat: 7
Average cost per job (GBP): 75,350
Number of repeat sales: 3
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4. Semyon Faibisovich
A photorealist artist who remains the most accurate realist even now, when painting fascinates Semyon Natanovich less than journalism. Exhibited at Malaya Gruzinskaya, where in 1985 he was noticed by New York dealers and collectors. Since 1987 he has regularly exhibited in the USA and Western Europe. An active supporter of the abolition of the law on propaganda of homosexuality in Russia. Lives and works in Moscow. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow House of Photography, museums in Germany, Poland, the USA, are included in the collections Daria Zhukova And Roman Abramovich, Igor Markin, Igor
Tsukanova.
Year of birth: 1949
Composition: "Soldiers" (from the series "Stations"). 1989
Date of sale: 10/13/2007
Price (GBP)1: 311,200
Total Capitalization (GBP): 3,093,000
Seat: 6
Average cost per job (GBP): 106,655
Number of repeat sales: 7
5. Grigory (Grisha) Bruskin
The protagonist of the first and last Soviet auction Sotheby's in 1988, where his work The Fundamental Lexicon became a top lot (£220,000). At the invitation of the German government, he created a monumental triptych for the reconstructed Reichstag in Berlin. Winner of the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Project of the Year" for the exhibition Time H at the Multimedia Art Museum. Lives and works in New York and Moscow. Works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, MoMA, the Museum of Jewish Culture (New York), etc., are included in the collections of the Queen of Spain Sofia, Petr Aven, Shalva Breus, Vladimir and Ekaterina Semenikhin, Milos Forman.
Year of birth: 1945
Artwork: "Logii. Part 1". 1987
Date of sale: 07.11.2000
Price (GBP)1: 424,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 720,000
Seat: 15
Average cost per job (GBP): 24,828
Number of repeat sales: 5
6. Oleg Tselkov
One of the most famous artists of the sixties, who in the 1960s began and still continues a cycle of paintings depicting rough, as if molded from clay, human faces (or figures), painted with bright aniline colors. Since 1977 lives in Paris. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Hermitage, the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, etc., are included in the collections Mikhail Baryshnikov, Arthur Miller, Igor Tsukanov. The largest private collection of Tselkov's works in Russia belongs to Evgeny Evtushenko.
Year of birth: 1934
Artwork: "Boy with Balloons" 1957
Date of sale: 26.11.2008
Price (GBP)1: 238,406
Total Capitalization (GBP): 4,232,000
Seat: 5
Average cost per job (GBP): 53,570
Number of repeat sales: 14
7. Oscar Rabin
Leader of the "Lianozovo group" (Moscow nonconformist artists of the 1950s-1960s), organizer of the scandalous bulldozer exhibition 1974. He was the first in the Soviet Union to sell works privately. In 1978 he was deprived of Soviet citizenship. Lives and works in Paris. In 2006 he won the Innovation Award for his contribution to art. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University, are included in the collections of Alexander Glezer, Vyacheslav Kantor, Alexander Kronik, Iveta and Tamaz Manasherov, Evgeny Nutovich, Aslan Chekhoev.
Year of birth: 1928
Artwork: "The city and the moon (Socialist
city)". 1959
Date of sale: 15.04.2008
Price (GBP)1: 171,939
Total Capitalization (GBP): 5,397,000
Seat: 3
Average cost per job (GBP): 27,964
Number of repeat sales: 45
8. Zurab Tsereteli
The largest representative of the already monumental art. The author of the monument to Peter I in Moscow and the monument Good conquers Evil in front of the UN building in New York. Founder of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, President of the Russian Academy of Arts, creator of the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, working at the aforementioned academy. Sculptures by Zurab Tsereteli, in addition to Russia, adorn Brazil, Great Britain, Georgia, Spain, Lithuania, the USA, France and Japan.
Year of birth: 1934
Composition: "The Dream of Athos"
Date of sale: 01.12.2009
Price (GBP)1: 151 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 498,000
Seat: 19
Average cost per job (GBP): 27,667
Number of repeat sales: 4
9. Viktor Pivovarov
One of the founders of Moscow conceptualism. Like Kabakov, the inventor of the conceptual album genre; like Kabakov, Bulatov and Oleg Vasilyev, he is a successful illustrator of children's books who collaborated with the magazines Murzilka and Funny Pictures. Since 1982 he has been living and working in Prague. The works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin, Kolodzei Art Foundation(USA), in the collections of Vladimir and Ekaterina Semenikhin, Igor Tsukanov.
Year of birth: 1937
Artwork: "Triptych with a snake." 2000
Sale date: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 145 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 482,000
Seat: 20
Average cost per job (GBP): 17,852
Number of repeat sales: 6
10. Alexander Melamid
Half of the creative tandem Komar — Melamid, disbanded in 2003. Together with Vitaly Komar, a participant bulldozer exhibition(where they died Double self-portrait, the founding work of Sots Art). Since 1978 he has been living and working in New York. There is no information about in which well-known collections the works of Melamid, created by him independently, are located.
Year of birth: 1945
Composition: Cardinal José Saraiva Martins. 2007
Sale date: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 145 250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 145,000
Seat: 36
Average cost per job (GBP): 145,000
Number of repeat sales: —
11. Francisco Infante Arana
The owner, perhaps, of the heaviest list of exhibitions among Russian artists. Member of the group of kinetists "Movement", in the 1970s he found his own version of photo performance, or "artifact" - geometric shapes integrated into the natural landscape.
Year of birth: 1943
Artwork: "Building a sign." 1984
Date of sale: 31.05.2006
Price (GBP)1: 142,400
Total Capitalization (GBP): 572,000
Seat: 17
Average cost per job (GBP): 22,000
Number of repeat sales: —
12. Vladimir Nemukhin
Metaphysician. A classic of the second wave of the Russian avant-garde, a member of the "Lianozovo group", one of the participants in the Bulldozer Exhibition, curator (or initiator) of important exhibitions of the 1980s, when unofficial Soviet
art was just becoming aware of itself.
Year of birth: 1925
Artwork: "Unfinished Solitaire". 1966
Date of sale: 26.04.2006
Price (GBP)1: 240,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 4,338,000
Seat: 4
Average cost per job (GBP): 36,454
Number of repeat sales: 26
13. Vladimir Yankilevsky
Surrealist, one of the main names of the post-war Moscow unofficial art, the creator of monumental philosophical polyptychs.
Year of birth: 1938
Artwork: “Triptych No. 10. Anatomy of the soul. II." 1970
Date of sale: 23.04.2010
Price (GBP)1: 133,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 754,000
Seat: 14
Average cost per job (GBP): 12,780
Number of repeat sales: 7
14. Alexander Vinogradov and Vladimir Dubossarsky
picturesque project Paintings to order, begun by them in the hopeless 1990s for painting, received what it deserved in the 2000s. The duet became popular with collectors, and one painting ended up in the collection of the Pompidou Center.
Year of birth: 1963, 1964
Artwork: "Night fitness". 2004
Date of sale: 22.06.2007
Price (GBP)1: 132,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 1,378,000
Seat: 11
Average cost per job (GBP): 26,500
Number of repeat sales: 4
15. Sergey Volkov
One of the heroes of perestroika art, known for expressive paintings with thoughtful statements. Participant of the Soviet auction Sotheby's in 1988.
Year of birth: 1956
Artwork: "Double vision.
Triptych"
Date of sale: 31.05.2007
Price (GBP)1: 132,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 777,000
Place: 12
Average cost per job (GBP): 38,850
Number of repeat sales: 4
16. AES + F (Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, Vladimir Fridkes)
AES projects were distinguished by a good presentation in the sloppy 1990s, which is what they remember. Now they are making large animated frescoes broadcast on dozens of screens.
Year of birth: 1955, 1958, 1957, 1956
Composition: "Warrior No. 4"
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 120,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 305,000
Seat: 27
Average cost per job (GBP): 30,500
Number of repeat sales: —
17. Lev Tabenkin
Sculptor and painter with a sculptural vision, as if sculpting his characters from clay.
Year of birth: 1952
Composition: Jazz Orchestra. 2004
Date of sale: 30.06.2008
Price (GBP)1: 117,650
Total Capitalization (GBP): 263,000
Seat: 28
Average cost per job (GBP): 26,300
Number of repeat sales: 7
18. Mikhail (Misha Shayevich) Brusilovsky
Sverdlovsk surrealist, author of ambiguous allegories.
Year of birth: 1931
Artwork: Football. 1965
Date of sale: 28.11.2006
Price (GBP)1: 108,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 133,000
Seat: 38
Average cost per job (GBP): 22,167
Number of repeat sales: —
19. Olga Bulgakova
One of the main figures of the intelligentsia "carnival" painting of the Brezhnev era. Corresponding member
Russian Academy of Arts.
Year of birth: 1951
Composition: "Dream of the red
bird." 1988
Date of sale: 22.11.2010
Price (GBP)1: 100,876
Total Capitalization (GBP): 219,000
Seat: 31
Average cost per job (GBP): 36,500
Number of repeat sales: —
20. Alexander Ivanov
An abstract artist who is primarily known as a businessman, collector and creator of the Faberge Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany).
Year of birth: 1962
Composition: Love. 1996
Date of sale: 06/05/2013
Price (GBP)1: 97,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 201,000
Seat: 33
Average cost per job (GBP): 50,250
Number of repeat sales: —
21. Ivan Chuikov
An independent wing of Moscow pictorial conceptualism. Author of a series of paintings-objects Windows. Somehow in the 1960s, he burned all the paintings, which is why gallery owners are still sad.
Year of birth: 1935
Artwork: "Untitled" 1986
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 96,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 1,545,000
Seat: 10
Average cost per job (GBP): 36,786
Number of repeat sales: 8
22. Konstantin Zvezdochetov
In his youth, a member of the Mukhomor group, which called itself the "fathers of the" new wave "in the Soviet Union" -
with good reason; with the onset of creative maturity, the participant of the Venice Biennale and the Kassel
documenta. Researcher and connoisseur of the visual in the Soviet grassroots culture.
Year of birth: 1958
Composition: "Perdo-K-62M"
Date of sale: 13.06.2008
Price (GBP)1: 92,446
Total Capitalization (GBP): 430,000
Seat: 22
Average cost per job (GBP): 22,632
Number of repeat sales: 2
23. Natalia Nesterova
One of the main art stars of the Brezhnev stagnation. Favored by collectors for its textured painting style.
Year of birth: 1944
Artwork: "Melnik and his
son". 1969
Date of sale: 15.06.2007
Price (GBP)1: 92,388
Total Capitalization (GBP): 1,950,000
Seat: 9
Average cost per job (GBP): 20,526
Number of repeat sales: 15
24. Maxim Kantor
An expressionist painter who performed at the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1997, as well as a publicist and writer, author of a philosophical and satirical novel drawing tutorial about the ins and outs of the Russian art world.
Year of birth: 1957
Artwork: "The Structure of Democracy". 2003
Sale date: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 87,650
Total Capitalization (GBP): 441,000
Seat: 21
Average cost per job (GBP): 44,100
Number of repeat sales: 2
25. Andrey Sidersky
Creates paintings in the style of psi-art invented by him. He translated into Russian the works of Carlos Castaneda and Richard Bach.
Year of birth: 1960
Composition: "Triptych"
Date of sale: 04.12.2009
Price (GBP)1: 90,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 102,000
Seat: 42
Average cost per job (GBP): 51,000
Number of repeat sales: —
26. Valery Koshlyakov
Known for paintings with architectural motifs. The largest representative of the "South Russian wave". Often uses cardboard boxes, bags, adhesive tape. The first exhibition with his participation was held in a public toilet in Rostov-on-Don in 1988.
Year of birth: 1962
Artwork: Versailles. 1993
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 72,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 346,000
Seat: 26
Average cost per job (GBP): 21,625
Number of repeat sales: 8
27. Alexey Sundukov
Laconic, lead-colored paintings about the "lead abominations" of everyday Russian life.
Year of birth: 1952
Artwork: "The Essence of Being". 1988
Date of sale: 23.04.2010
Price (GBP)1: 67,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 255,000
Seat: 29
Average cost per job (GBP): 25,500
Number of repeat sales: 1
28. Igor Novikov
Belongs to the generation of Moscow nonconformist artists of the late 1980s.
Year of birth: 1961
Artwork: “Kremlin breakfast, or Moscow for sale”. 2009
Date of sale: 03.12.2010
Price (GBP)1: 62,092
Total Capitalization (GBP): 397,000
Seat: 24
Average cost per job (GBP): 15,880
Number of repeat sales: 3
29. Vadim Zakharov
Archivist of Moscow Conceptualism. The author of spectacular installations on thoughtful topics, represented Russia at the Venice
biennale.
Year of birth: 1959
Artwork: Baroque. 1986-1994
Sale date: 10/18/2008
Price (GBP)1: 61,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 243,000
Seat: 30
Average cost per job (GBP): 20,250
Number of repeat sales: —
30. Yuri Krasny
Author of art programs for children with special needs.
Year of birth: 1925
Composition: "Smoker"
Date of sale: 04.04.2008Price (GBP)1: 59,055
Total Capitalization (GBP): 89,000
Seat: 44
Average cost per job (GBP): 11,125
Number of repeat sales: 8
31. Sergey and Alexey Tkachev
Classics of late Soviet impressionism, students of Arkady Plastov, known for their paintings from the life of the Russian village.
Year of birth: 1922, 1925
Artwork: "In the field". 1954
Date of sale: 01.12.2010
Price (GBP)1: 58,813
Total Capitalization (GBP): 428,000
Seat: 23
Average cost per job (GBP): 22,526
Number of repeat sales: 4
32. Svetlana Kopystyanskaya
Known for installations of paintings. After the Moscow auction Sotheby's in 1988 works abroad.
Year of birth: 1950
Composition: "Seascape"
Date of sale: 10/13/2007
Price (GBP)1: 57,600
Total Capitalization (GBP): 202,000
Seat: 32
Average cost per job (GBP): 22,444
Number of repeat sales: 2
33. Boris Orlov
Sculptor close to Sots Art. Famous for his work in the ironic "imperial" style and the masterful dressing of bronze busts and bouquets.
Year of birth: 1941
Artwork: Sailor. 1976
Sale date: 10/17/2013
Price (GBP)1: 55,085
Total Capitalization (GBP): 174,000
Seat: 34
Average cost per job (GBP): 17,400
Number of repeat sales: 1
34. Vyacheslav Kalinin
The author of expressive paintings from the life of the urban lower classes and drinking bohemia.
Year of birth: 1939
Artwork: "Self-portrait with a hang glider"
Date of sale: 25.11.2012
Price (GBP)1: 54,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 766,000
Seat: 13
Average cost per job (GBP): 12,767
Number of repeat sales: 24
35. Evgeny Semenov
Known for a photo series with patients with Down's disease, playing the role of gospel characters.
Year of birth: 1960
Composition: Heart. 2009
Date of sale: 29.06.2009
Price (GBP)1: 49,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 49,000
Seat: 48
Average Cost of Work (GBP): 49,000
Number of repeat sales: —
36. Yuri Cooper
He became famous for his nostalgic paintings with old household items. Playwright Twelve paintings from the artist's life, staged at the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov.
Year of birth: 1940
Artwork: Window. Dass Street, 56. 1978
Date of sale: 09.06.2010
Price (GBP)1: 49,250
Total Capitalization (GBP): 157,000
Seat: 35
Average cost per job (GBP): 2,754
Number of repeat sales: 14
37. Alexander Kosolapov
A social artist whose work has been the target of all sorts of attacks. During the Art Moscow 2005 fair, one of his works was destroyed by a religious fanatic with a hammer.
Year of birth: 1943
Artwork: "Marlboro Malevich". 1987
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 48,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 510,000
Seat: 18
Average cost per job (GBP): 15,938
Number of repeat sales: 1
38. Leonid Sokov
Leading Sots Art sculptor who combined folklore with politics. Among the famous works Device for determining nationality by the shape of the nose.
Year of birth: 1941
Artwork: "Bear hitting a sickle with a hammer." 1996
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 48,500
Total Capitalization (GBP): 352,000
Seat: 25
Average cost per job (GBP): 13,538
Number of repeat sales: 7
39. Vladimir Ovchinnikov
One of the patriarchs of unofficial art in Leningrad. Orthodox version of Fernando Botero.
Year of birth: 1941
Artwork: "Angels and Railway Tracks" 1977
Date of sale: 17.04.2007
Price (GBP)1: 47,846
Total Capitalization (GBP): 675,000
Seat: 16
Average cost per job (GBP): 15,341
Number of repeat sales: —
40. Konstantin Khudyakov
The author of paintings on religious subjects. Now he works in digital art technique.
Year of birth: 1945
Artwork: The Last Supper. 2007
Date of sale: 18.02.2011
Price (GBP)1: 46,850
Total Capitalization (GBP): 97,000
Seat: 43
Average cost per job (GBP): 32,333
Number of repeat sales: —
41. Ernst Unknown
An icon of Soviet non-conformism - since he openly objected to General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev at the vernissage of the legendary exhibition dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Union of Artists. After that, he made a monument on the grave of Khrushchev and a monument in front of the UN European headquarters.
Year of birth: 1925
Composition: "Untitled"
Date of sale: 08.06.2010
Price (GBP)1: 46,850
Total Capitalization (GBP): 2,931,000
Seat: 8
Average cost per job (GBP): 24,839
Number of repeat sales: 13
42. Anatoly Osmolovsky
One of the main figures of Moscow actionism in the 1990s, art theorist, curator, publisher and head of the Baza Institute research and educational program, winner of the first Kandinsky Prize.
Year of birth: 1969
Composition: "Bread" (from the series "Pagans"). 2009
Date of sale: 23.04.2010
Price (GBP)1: 46,850
Total Capitalization (GBP): 83,000
Seat: 46
Average cost per job (GBP): 11,857
Number of repeat sales: —
43. Dmitry Vrubel
Photorealist painter, known mainly for the painting depicting Brezhnev and Honecker kissing (or rather, thanks to the author's reproduction on the Berlin Wall).
Year of birth: 1960
Composition: "Fraternal kiss (triptych)". 1990
Date of sale: 25.11.2013
Price (GBP)1: 45,000
Seat: 40
Average cost per job (GBP): 16,429
Number of repeat sales: 2
44. Leonid Lamm
The author of installations that combined the motifs of the Russian avant-garde and the scenes of Soviet prison life. Lives in America. In the 1970s, on false charges, he spent three years in prisons and labor camps.
Year of birth: 1928
Artwork: "Apple II" (from the series "The Seventh Heaven"). 1974-1986
Sale date: 12/16/2009
Price (GBP)1: 43,910
Total Capitalization (GBP): 115,000
Seat: 41
Average cost per job (GBP): 14,375
Number of repeat sales: —
Picturesque installations by Irina Nakhova of the 1980s in her apartment can claim authorship in the “total.
45. Irina Nakhova
Muse of Moscow Conceptualism. Winner of the Kandinsky Prize in 2013 for "Project of the Year". In 2015 at the 56th Venice Biennale
will represent Russia.
Year of birth: 1955
Artwork: Triptych. 1983
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 38,900
Total Capitalization (GBP): 85,000
Seat: 45
Average cost per job (GBP): 17,000
Number of repeat sales: 1
46. Katya Filippova
An avant-garde fashion designer who became famous during perestroika. Decorated the windows of the Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette, was friends with Pierre Cardin.
Year of birth: 1958
"Artwork: Marina Ladynina" (from the series "Russian Hollywood")
Date of sale: 12.03.2008
Price (GBP)1: 38,900
Total Capitalization (GBP): 39,000
Seat: 49
Average cost per job (GBP): 39,000
Number of repeat sales: —
47. Boris Zaborov
Theater artist, book illustrator. In 1980 he emigrated to Paris, worked on costumes for the Comedie Francaise.
Year of birth: 1935
Artwork: "Communicator".1981
Date of sale: 30.10.2006
Price (GBP)1: 36,356
Total Capitalization (GBP): 67,000
Seat: 47
Average cost per job (GBP): 13,400
Number of repeat sales: 2
48. Rostislav Lebedev
Classical social artist, colleague (and workshop neighbor) of Boris Orlov and Dmitry Prigov. He creatively transformed the visual propaganda of the Soviet era.
Year of birth: 1946
Artwork: "Russian fairy tale". 1949
Date of sale: 03.06.2008
Price (GBP)1: 34,000
Total Capitalization (GBP): 122,000
Seat: 39
Average cost per job (GBP): 24,400
Number of repeat sales: 2
49. Andrey Filippov
Belongs to the Moscow conceptual school. The author of paintings and installations, united by the theme "Moscow - the Third Rome". Since 2009, together with Yuri Albert and Victor Skersis, he has been a member of the Cupid group.
Year of birth: 1959
Artwork: "Seven feet under the keel". 1988
Date of sale: 31.05.2006
Price (GBP)1: 33,600
Total Capitalization (GBP): 137,000
Seat: 37
Average cost per job (GBP): 12,455
Number of repeat sales: 3
50. Vladimir Shinkarev
The founder and ideologist of the Leningrad art group Mitki, in whose novel Mitki this term was first used. The novel was written out of boredom while working in the boiler room.
Year of birth: 1954
Artwork: Lenin Square I. 1999
Date of sale: 30.06.2008
Price (GBP)1: 32,450
Total Capitalization (GBP): 33,000
Seat: 50
Average cost per job (GBP): 16,500
Number of repeat sales: —
Sales vs Exhibitions
Recognition of the market and recognition of the professional community seem to many different things, but the division into "commercial" and "non-commercial" artists is very conditional. So, of the Russian artists exhibited over the past ten years at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art (and this is the pinnacle of their professional career), seven units (if you count by person, then 11 people) got into our rating. And the top 10 artists from the ranking either exhibited at the Venice Biennale before, or had solo exhibitions in major museums. As for those wonderful masters who were not included in the rating, their absence or not very outstanding sales are explained simply and tritely. Collectors are conservative and even from the most avant-garde artists prefer to buy paintings (paintings, objects or photographs that look like paintings) or sculptures (or objects that look like sculptures). There are no record-breaking performances or giant installations in our rating (installations are usually bought by museums, but the price there is museum, at a discount). That is why such stars as Andrey Monastyrsky, Oleg Kulik, Pavel Pepperstein(until recently, he mainly did graphics, and graphics are a priori cheaper than painting) or, for example, Nikolay Polissky, whose grandiose designs have not yet found understanding collectors.
In addition, the market is conservative also because recognition here comes slowly - note that in the top 10, all artists born in 1950 or older. That is, the promising participants of the Biennale still have everything ahead of them.
Today, contemporary painting has gained incredible popularity, therefore it has become known not only for its tendency to push boundaries and explore new means of expression, but also for record sales in the contemporary art market over the past few years. Moreover, artists from almost all over the world, from America to Asia, enjoy success. Next, you will find out whose names are represented by the best contemporary painting in the world, who is he, the most expensive contemporary artist, and who is a little short of this title.
The most expensive contemporary artists
Among the myriad of names that modern painting has, the paintings of only certain artists enjoy exceptional success. Among them, the most expensive paintings were the famous neo-expressionist and graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who, however, died at the age of 27. In our list, you will see only the first seven of those wealthy artists who are alive to this day.
Bryce Marden
The works of this American author are quite difficult to classify and bring to a single art direction, although he is often referred to as representatives of either minimalism or abstractionism. But unlike artists in these styles, whose paintings seem to have never been touched, Marden's contemporary painting retains palette knife strokes and other traces of his work. One of those who influenced his work is considered to be another contemporary artist Jasper Johns, whose name you will meet later.
Zeng Fanzhi
This contemporary artist is one of the main figures of the Chinese art scene today. It was his work called "The Last Supper", created based on the famous work of Leonardo da Vinci, was sold for 23.3 million dollars and became the most expensive painting that modern Asian painting can boast of. Also known are the works of the artist "Self-portrait", the triptych "Hospital" and paintings from the series "Masks".
In the 1990s, his painting style often changed and eventually moved from expressionism to symbolism.
Peter Doig
Peter Doig is a world-famous Scottish contemporary artist whose work is inspired by the theme of magical realism. Many of his works tend to disorient the viewer, even when they depict recognizable images such as figures, trees, and buildings.
In 2015, his painting "Swamped" managed to break the record and become the most expensive painting by contemporary artists from Scotland, being sold at auction for 25.9 million. Doig's paintings "Architect's House in the Hollow", "White Canoe", "Reflection", "Roadside Diner" and others are also popular.
Christopher Wool
Contemporary artist Christopher Wool explores various post-conceptual ideas in his work. The artist's most famous modern paintings are block inscriptions depicted in black on a white canvas.
Such paintings by contemporary artists cause a lot of controversy and dissatisfaction among adherents of traditional painting, but, one way or another, one of Wool's works - "Apocalypse" - brought him 26 million dollars. Wool does not think about the titles of the paintings for a long time, but names them according to the inscriptions: “Blue Fool”, “Troubles”, etc.
Jasper Johns
Contemporary artist Jasper Johns is known for his rebellious attitude towards abstract expressionism, which dominated the painting scene early in his career. Moreover, he works by creating costly canvases with flags, license plates, numbers and other well-known symbols that already have a clear meaning and do not need to be deciphered.
By the way, the most expensive paintings by contemporary artists include the work of the American "Flag", sold at auction in 2010 for $ 28 million. You can also look at the works "Three Flags", "False Start", "From 0 to 9", "Target with Four Faces" and many others.
Gerhard Richter
This contemporary artist from Germany, like many painters at the beginning of his career, studied realistic academic painting, but later became interested in more progressive art.
In the author's work, one can see the influence of many art trends of the 20th century, such as abstract expressionism, pop art, minimalism and conceptualism, but at the same time, Richter retained a skeptical attitude towards all established artistic and philosophical beliefs, being sure that modern painting is dynamics and search. The artist's works include "Land of meadows", "Reading", "1024 colors", "Wall", etc.
Jeff Koons
And finally, here he is - the most expensive contemporary artist in the world. American Jeff Koons works in the neo-pop style and is known for his catchy, kitsch and defiant creativity.
He is mainly known as the author of a huge number of modern sculptures, some of which were exhibited in Versailles itself. But also among the artist's works there are paintings for which special connoisseurs are ready to give millions of dollars: "Liberty Bell", "Auto", "Girl with a Dolphin and Monkey", "Saddle" and others.
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Stanislav Plutenko
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Looking at the hyper-realistic still lifes of this Russian artist, you just want to reach out and take from the canvas or touch what is painted there. They are so alive and soulful. Artist Dmitry Annenkov lives in Moscow and works in different genres. And in all unusually talented.Vasily Shulzhenko
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Of all the art forms, painting with good reason can be called the most actively developing direction. The author's canvas on the wall can not only make the interior original, but also become a central point, attracting the attention of others and creating a unique atmosphere. If we consider that modern people pay a lot of attention to the creation of a unique interior, then the high demand for paintings that is currently observed becomes understandable.
Among the many currents of modern painting, the most actively developing are:
- conceptual art and minimalism;
- impressionism, romanticism and the classical direction.
With their flight of fancy, modern painters literally amaze, which can be seen by visiting exhibitions. To be convinced of the popularity of the paintings created by contemporary artists, just read. Among the current trends: oil paintings, wall paintings, photorealistic works. Their canvases are presented by young artists who have only recently declared themselves, and famous painters, the cost of whose work is estimated at more than one tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The interest of connoisseurs of art and buyers is attracted by works made in the following directions:
Current trends
The art of wall painting can currently be called one of the most sought after. Skillful painting of ceilings and walls is a great way to improve almost any room: residential, entertainment. An artist can apply a drawing to any surface in a different plane. Wall painting makes it possible to eliminate any defects in the premises, visually enlarge the space, change the level of illumination. Depending on the wishes of the customer, portraits, still lifes, abstraction, fantasy, landscapes, etc. can be depicted on the wall.
Art connoisseurs are interested in painting using unusual “colors”: coffee, milk, berry juices and ... beer. Kyle Bice, an artist from Chicago, became the creator of a new direction, calling it beer painting. Paintings with beer are very popular, celebrities and the richest people on the planet buy his works.
fashion artists
Among the artists whose works are of constant interest among connoisseurs of painting, one of the most sought after is Takashi Murakami, who has become a legend of modern art. The peculiarity of his works is in the harmonious combination of traditional Japanese painting and current trends of our time. In 2008, Takashi Murakami was included in the list of 100 most influential people in the world.
Also of interest are the frank, sometimes cruel and shocking works of the Flemish artist Jan Faber. He uses non-traditional materials (blue ink BIC pens, blood, paws and bug shells). connect the human world and the animal world, leaving no one indifferent.
