Saturday, May 8, 2010

Who was Kasimir Malevich?


Kasimir was born in 1878 near Keiv and died in 1935. He was a Russian painter and designer. In 1913
he started creating geometric patterns he called suprematism. If you would like to learn more about his life, go to http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/malevich/ 
Here is a self portrait of him:


List of most expensive paintings


Adjusted price (in millions)↓Original price (in millions)↓PaintingArtist↓Year↓Date of sale↓Rank at sale↓SellerBuyerAuction house↓
$151.2$140No. 5, 1948Jackson Pollock19482006-11-021David GeffenPrivate sale via Sotheby's[4]
$148.5$137.5Woman IIIWillem de Kooning19532006-11-182David GeffenSteven A. CohenPrivate sale via Larry Gagosian [5]
$144.8$135Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer IGustav Klimt19072006-06-181Maria AltmannRonald LauderNeue GaleriePrivate sale via Christie's[6]
$139.0$82.5Portrait of Dr. GachetVincent van Gogh18901990-05-151Siegfried Kramarsky familyRyoei Saito [7]Christie'sNew York
$131.6$78.1Bal du moulin de la Galette[8]Pierre-Auguste Renoir18761990-05-172Betsey WhitneyRyoei Saito [9]Sotheby's, New York
$119.9$104.2Garçon à la pipePablo Picasso19052004-05-043Greentree foundation(Whitney family)Guido Barilla[10]Sotheby's, New York [11]
$106.5$106.5Nude, Green Leaves and BustPablo Picasso19322010-05-047Frances Lasker Brody estateChristie's, New York [12]
$101.3 ++$58 plus exchange of works[13]Portrait of Joseph RoulinVincent van Gogh18891989-08-011Private collection, ZürichMuseum of Modern Art New YorkPrivate sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich[14]
$102.3$95.2Dora Maar au ChatPablo Picasso19412006-05-034Gidwitz familyBoris Ivanishvili[15]Sotheby's, New York [16]
$101.6$53.9IrisesVincent van Gogh18891987-11-111son of Joan Whitney PaysonAlan Bond [17]Sotheby's, New York
$100.5$100.0Eight ElvisesAndy Warhol19632008-1010Annibale BerlingieriPrivate sale via Philippe Ségalot [18]
$94.9$71.5Portrait de l'artiste sans barbeVincent van Gogh18891998-11-195Heirs of Jacques KoerferChristie's, New York
$94.9$87.9Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer IIGustav Klimt19122006-11-029Maria AltmannChristie's, New York
$92.7$76.7 (£49.5)Massacre of the InnocentsPeter Paul Rubens16112002-07-106an Austrian familyKenneth Thomson [19]Sotheby's, London
$86.7$86.3Triptych, 1976Francis Bacon19762008-05-1413Moueix Family,Château Pétrus[20]Roman Abramovich [8]Sotheby's, New York [21]
$86.3$80.0False Start [22]Jasper Johns19592006-10-1210David GeffenKenneth C. GriffinPrivate sale via Richard Gray
$86.0$57A Wheatfield with CypressesVincent van Gogh18891993-055son of Emil Georg BührleWalter H. Annenberg [23]Private sale via Steven Mazoh
$85.3$49.3 (F300)Les Noces de PierrettePablo Picasso19051989-11-303Fredrik RoosTomonori TsurumakiBinoche et Godeau Paris
$84.1$47.85Yo, PicassoPablo Picasso19011989-05-092Wendell CherryStavros NiarchosSotheby's, New York
$83.7$80.0Turquoise MarilynAndy Warhol19642007-05-2017Stefan EdlisSteven A. CohenPrivate sale via Larry Gagosian [24]
$80.1$80.5 (£40.9)Le Bassin aux NymphéasClaude Monet19192008-06-2419J. Irwin and Xenia S. MillerChristie's, London [25]
$79.2$60.5Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier [26]Paul Cézanne18941999-05-109Whitney FamilySotheby's, New York
$77.0$39.7 (£24.75)Vase with Fifteen SunflowersVincent van Gogh18881987-03-301daughter-in-law of Chester BeattyYasuo Goto, Yasuda Comp.Christie's, London
$76.2$72.8White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)Mark Rothko19502007-05-1520David Rockefeller, Sr.Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani[27]Sotheby's, New York [28]
$75.1$71.7Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I)Andy Warhol19632007-05-1621Private collection, ZürichPhilip NiarchosChristie's, New York [29]
$72.4$70.6 (£50)Diana and ActaeonTitian1556-15592009-02-0125Duke of SutherlandNational Galleries of Scotland & National Gallery, LondonPrivate sale [9] [10][11]
$71.3$68The Gross ClinicThomas Eakins18752007-04-1220Thomas Jefferson UniversityPhiladelphia Museum of ArtPrivate sale
$70.4$40.7Au Lapin AgilePablo Picasso19041989-11-275daughter of Joan Whitney PaysonWalter H. AnnenbergSotheby's, New York
$69.7$38.5 (£20.9)Acrobate et jeune Arlequin [30]Pablo Picasso19051988-11-283heir of Roger Janssen?MitsukoshiChristie's, London
$68.8$55.0Femme aux Bras CroisésPablo Picasso19022000-11-0813McCormick family, ChicagoChristie's, New York [31]
$68.5$63.5Police GazetteWillem de Kooning19552006-10-1219David GeffenSteven A. CohenPrivate sale via Richard Gray Gallery
$65.2$48.4Le Rêve [32]Pablo Picasso19321997-11-1011Ganz family[12]Wolfgang Flöttl [13]Christie's, New York.
$64.4$47.5Peasant Woman Against a Background of WheatVincent van Gogh1890199711Stephen Wynn [33]Private sale via Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York [34]
$64.1$49.6Femme assise dans un jardinPablo Picasso19381999-11-1015Robert SaidenbergSotheby's, New York
$61.9$35.2Portrait of a HalberdierPontormo15371989-05-315Chauncey Devereaux StillmanGetty MuseumChristie's, New York
$61.5$60.0Suprematist CompositionKazimir Malevich19162008-11-0334Heirs of Kazimir MalevichSotheby's, New York [35]