苏富比焦点：紫色沃霍尔 红色罗斯科

安迪·沃霍尔　自画像　

　　在5月12日晚的苏富比拍卖场上，焦点集中于安迪·沃霍尔1986年完成的作品《自画像》（Self Portrait），作品拍得32,600,000美元，高出最高股价15,000,000的两倍。在同一场拍卖上，罗斯科的一件作品也成为众人关注的对象。整场拍卖的总额为189,969,000美元。

　　出售这件作品的是时尚设计师、导演、收藏家托米·福德（Tom Ford），其中有6为买家竞拍这件作品，最终，一位不知名的购买者通过电话买下这件作品。

　　沃霍尔一生都在作自己的自画像，这次拍卖的这件作品完成于艺术家逝世之前一年，在黑色的背景中是艺术家自己深紫色的头像，头上戴着假发，忧郁的眼睛直视着观者。沃霍尔一共制作了5件这样尺寸的作品，每一张的背景色彩都不一样，其中匹兹堡博物馆（Museum in Pittsburgh）收藏两件，一件是黄色的，一件是蓝色的背景。 Fort Worth当代美术馆（The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth）藏有一幅绿色背景的；而藏家Peter M. Brant 则拥有一件红色的作品。

　　在同一场拍卖中，马克·罗斯科的一件红色的无题抽象画也成为拍卖焦点，这件作品完成于1961年，作品最终拍得31,400,000美元，作品的估价为18,000,000-25,000,000美元，罗斯科作品的出售者是一位墨西哥金融家David Martinez，而买得这件作品的同样也是一位不知名的人士，通过电话购得。

Purple Warhol and Red Rothko Go for Lots of Green at Sotheby’s

At Sotheby’s on Wednesday night all eyes were on a 1986 painting by Andy Warhol, “Self Portrait,” which sold for $32.6 million, more than twice its $15 million high estimate.

The seller was Tom Ford, the fashion designer, movie director and collector; the buyer, one of six bidders, bid by telephone through Gregoire Billaut of Sotheby’s Paris.

Warhol created self-portraits throughout his career. In this painting, made a year before his death, he is posed against a purple background wearing his signature fright wig and staring hauntingly straight at the viewer. He made five versions in this large format – it is nine feet square – each with a different background color. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has two, one yellow, the other blue. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth has a green one; and Peter M. Brant, the newsprint magnate, has a red one.

One of Mark Rothko’s untitled abstract red canvases, this one from 1961, also went for a high price: $31.4 million, also to a telephone bidder. The painting was estimated to bring $18 million to $25 million. David Martinez, a Mexican financier, was the seller.