10 abstract paintings that look like graffiti even though they cost more than 100 million yen

By digital cat

Some of the abstract paintings, such as paintings that are just painted on the entire canvas, those that are torn from the canvas, and works that look like children scribbled with crayons, make me think 'I can draw by myself ...?' There is something like that. Among such abstract paintings, Art Sumo has put together 10 works that were sold at auction for a very high price of hundreds of millions to billions of yen.

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◆ 01: Concetto spaziale, Attese (about 140 million yen)
Lucio Fontana 's Concetto spaziale series ' Attese ' was sold for $ 1.5 million. Fontana is an Italian artist of the 20th century, famous for her works of tearing and piercing canvas.

◆ 02: Blood Red Mirror (about 100 million yen)
Gerhard Richter 's Blood Red Mirror, which looks like it's just painted in red, costs $ 1.1 million . Richter's paintings were also auctioned in 2012 and sold for about £ 21.32 million . This is the highest price ever for a living painter's work.

◆ 03: Green White (approx. 150 million yen)
Ellsworth Kelly 's work with a distorted green circle on a white canvas costs $ 1.6 million .

◆ 04: Untitled (1961) (approx. 2.63 billion yen)
Mark Rothko 's untitled work, painted in 1961, costs $ 28 million . At the DIC Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art in Chiba Prefecture, there is a room with Rothko's work on the wall, and it is highly evaluated in Japan as having 'deep spirituality', but it is difficult for the general public to understand. that's right.

◆ 05: Until (Stoffbild) (approx. 160 million yen)
Blinky Palermo's untitled work, which died at the young age of 34, was sold at an auction for $ 1.7 million.

◆ 06: Peinture (Le Chien) (approx. 210 million yen)
Joan Miró 's ' Peinture ' won over $ 2.2 million. Mr. Milo, a surrealist , left behind many works depicting people and animals that were deformed based on the primary colors, but this work has a slightly different touch from the masterpiece, and anyway, collectors who want to collect Milo's works are exorbitantly priced. It is expected to be attached.

◆ 07: White Fire I (approx. 360 million yen)
The first in Barnett Newman 's 'White Fire' series. It was sold for 3.8 million dollars (about 360 million yen). The title, White Fire, is a symbolic word in the Jewish law , and this painting seems to appeal to the viewer with a sense of depth in the spirit.

◆ 08: Untitled (220 million yen)
Cy Twombly created a work that looks like a series of cursive 'e' and 'l'. The following work, which looks like a series of 'e' written on paper with crayons, was sold for $ 2.3 million (220 million yen), but it looks like a child's kid.

◆ 09: Cowboy (about 160 million yen)
This is also a work by Ellsworth Kelly, named Cowboy , and was sold for $ 1.7 million (about 160 million yen).

◆ 10: Blue Fool (about 470 million yen)
Christopher Wool 's work 'Blue Fool', which writes letters on canvas, won the bid for $ 5 million (about 470 million yen). I can't say anything when I think that some people bought a canvas with the word Fool for 470 million yen.