バスキア絵画、１００億円で落札　歴代２位

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】米画家ジャンミシェル・バスキアの絵画「イン・ディス・ケース」が１１日、競売大手クリスティーズによりニューヨークでオークションにかけられ、バスキア作品としては歴代２位の９３１０万ドル（約１００億円）で落札された。（写真はジャンミシェル・バスキアの絵画「イン・ディス・ケース」）
　赤い背景に頭骨が描かれた１９８３年の同作の予想落札額は５０００万ドル（約５５億円）で、これを大きく上回った。
　歴代最高額は、２０１７年５月にニューヨークのサザビーズで１億１０５０万ドル（約１２０億円）で落札された作品で、同じく頭骨が描かれていた。
　「イン・ディス・ケース」には多くのバスキア作品に共通する、人体構造とアフリカ系米国人という二大テーマが盛り込まれている。
　同作が２００２年１１月に出品された際には、およそ１００分の１の９９万９５００ドル（約１億１０００万円）で落札されており、今回の高額落札には、アート界でバスキアの評価がさらに高まっていることが表れている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/05/13-14:08）

Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting In this Case sold for $93.1 million in an auction Tuesday at Christie's in New York, the second-highest price paid for a work by the late artist.
The 1983 painting, which depicts a skull on a red background, sold for $81 million, but with fees and commissions the final price came to $93.1 million, well above the estimate of $50 million.
It was another skull, Untitled, that set the record for the most expensive by Basquiat (1960-1988), which went for $110.5 million in May 2017 at Sotheby's in New York.
In This Case reprises two dominant themes in Basquiat's work, anatomy and representation of African-American characters.
In a sign of Basquiat's growing status in the art world, the same canvas was sold in November 2002 for just $999,500, barely more than a hundredth of the price paid on Tuesday.
With the exception of New York-based Basquiat, African American painters have long been undervalued by collectors and underrepresented in museums.
In recent years, the market has started a process of re-evaluating many of them. On Tuesday, Christie's had presented several Black artists as part of its big spring sale.
A Nina Chanel Abney work sold for $990,000, a Jordan Casteel went for $687,500 and a Rashid Johnson fetched $1.95 million.
A work by British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was sold for $1.95 million and a piece by Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui went under the hammer for $1.95 million, all of them setting new records.