Why does the ball on “Salvator Mundi” look strange? American programmers answer

The implausible image of a glass globe in Christ’s left hand is far from the only rebuke from those who do not believe in the authenticity of the most expensive painting sold at auction ever. But it’s very painful. A glass or crystal ball (a metaphor for a saved world) on a walnut board for $450,312,500 almost does not refract light. A real ball of this shape would give the effect of a convex lens. A transparent object on the board looks flat. The folds of clothes behind it are not distort.

Russian Art Market 2019. Not the worst year of the stagnation period

According to unofficial statistics, in 2019, sales of paintings, drawings and sculptures at auctions in Russia amounted to $9.9 million, which is 53% less than in the pre-crisis 2013. But 47% more than in 2018. How to interpret this result?

Our answer to Cattelan. ArtSale.info will hold one-day auction for Moskovsky Komsomolets' bold art experiment

The MK action, invented by the journalist and curator Maria Moskvicheva, is a hommage to the scandalous banana on the scotch tape by the artist Maurizio Cattelan. The perishable fruit from the challenging installation “Comedian” has just been sold for $120,000. This trading episode again raised a wave of debate about the price and value of art, the boundaries permissible in its forms, as well as the hype and fake nature of the contemporary art market.

VIDEO: Konstantin Babulin talks about the top lots of auction No. 2

Rabin with written confirmation by the author, Zverev’s oil with the expertise by Silaev, graphics by Eduard Steinberg, signed print by Mikhail Chemiakine, diptych by Grositsky and other interesting offers

The auction ends on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 12:00

https://artsale.info/auction/

 

Joseph Kobzon in the drawing by Tamara Zinovieva

Joseph Kobzon sitting.

The artist: Tamara Zinovieva.

Portraits of Zinovieva are not images painted from nature. These are biomorphic images (conditionally reminiscent of bodies and faces) woven from sensations and experiences. So her Kobzon is not a man, but a lump, a bunch of energy, an era. A large, powerful thing. Museum level.

Wednesday, December 10, 2019, at ArtSale.info Auction https://artsale.info/auction/