Along with Christie’s, New York’s Sotheby’s, one of the two major mountains in the art auction market, will auction off rare works by Picasso and Klimt this month.
The total auction price of these works is expected to reach up to one billion dollars.
This is Reporter Lee Sang-soon on the sidewalk.
[기자]
Austria’s Lake Athese emits a rainbow-like brilliance.
Klimt’s painting style of ‘Schubert’s music expressed in color’ is well revealed.
[알레그라 베티니 / 뉴욕 소더비 부사장 : 실제 풍경이라기보다는 물을 시적으로 묘사한 것에 가까워서 더욱 흥미로운 작품입니다.]
This is Klimt’s only work with a lake theme from the early 20th century.
The auction price is expected to be a whopping 45 million dollars, or about 60 billion won.
This is ‘Empire of Light’ by René Magritte, a surrealist painter.
One of the 17 ‘Empire of Light’ series, this piece is fetching up to $55 million at auction.
[줄리안 도우스 / 뉴욕 소더비 수석 부사장 : 마그리트의 궁극적인 작품이며, 초현실주의의 가장 위대한 업적입니다. 소더비 5월 시즌의 하이라이트입니다.]
Portraits of the three women Picasso loved will also be auctioned at Sotheby’s.
Depending on your personal relationship with Picasso, the winning bids for works with soft tones, intense colors, or goddesses are expected to be between 20 and 30 million dollars each.
[줄리안 도우스 / 뉴욕 소더비 수석 부사장 : 시장, 금리 등과 같은 세계적인 의미에서 불확실성이 더 많이 존재하는 시기에도 사람들은 자산으로서 예술에 더 많은 관심을 가지고 있습니다.]
The Sotheby’s New York auction, which will be held over three days starting on the 16th of this month, is expected to surpass the $1 billion mark for the third time in four recent seasonal auctions.
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