前澤氏所有のバスキア絵画、１０９億円で落札

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】実業家の前澤友作氏の所有する米現代画家ジャンミシェル・バスキアの無題の絵画（１９８２年）が１８日、米ニューヨークで競売に掛けられ、予想落札価格を大幅に上回る８５００万ドル（約１０９億円）で落札された。（写真は米現代画家ジャンミシェル・バスキアの無題の絵画（１９８２年）。英ロンドンの競売会社フィリップスで）
　前澤氏は２０１６年に同作品を５７３０万ドル（現レートで約７４億円）で購入していた。予想落札価格は約７０００万ドル（約９０億円）だった。
　前澤氏は先に、バスキアの作品を所有できた６年間について、幸せで刺激的な忘れられない時間になったとし、アート作品はなるべく多くの人に共有されるべきものだと語っていた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/05/19-14:23）

Jean-Michel Basquiat's Untitled 1982 sold for $85 million at auction in New York Wednesday, well above its pre-sale estimate and netting Japanese billionaire space tourist Yusaku Maezawa a tidy profit.
Phillips auction house sold the 16-foot-wide painting on behalf of Maezawa, who purchased it in 2016 for $57.3 million.
The auctioneers had tipped it to go for around $70 million.
Phillips announced in a statement in March that it would put the artwork under the hammer.
Maezawa, the mega-rich founder of Japan's largest online fashion mall, said in the statement that the past six years of owning the painting were a great pleasure.
But art should be shared so that it can be a part of everyone's lives, he added.
Ahead of its sale, the massive artwork went on an international tour, being displayed in London, Los Angeles and Taipei.
Maezawa, who in 2017 set a new auction record for Basquiat works when he paid $110.5 million for another painting by the 20th century giant, has said he plans to create a new museum to exhibit his collection.
He founded the Contemporary Art Foundation in Tokyo and was on the 2017 list of Top 200 Collectors by the ARTnews magazine based in New York.
He has been in the headlines more recently for becoming the first space tourist to travel to the International Space Station with Russia's space agency.
His odyssey is believed to have cost around 10 billion yen ($87 million), and he plans to follow it up with a trip around the Moon organized by Elon Musk's SpaceX.