impasto
なんだかバブル時代を彷彿させるような数値です。ここのimpastoは絵画の技法のようですが、どんな意味なのでしょうか。最近会っていない（ヘンな話です）potterくん、どうぞ。（KAwada）
Christie’s Has Art World’s First $1 Billion Week
A purchase price of $5.8 million with fees for Joan Mitchell’s 1969-70 Abstract Expressionist painting “Afternoon” on Wednesday pushed the total art sales by Christie’s this week past $1 billion, the first time a single auction house had reached that benchmark in such a short span.
A work filled with passages of blue, white and yellow impasto, it had not appeared on the auction market since 1992. The Mitchell was one of 82 lots of postwar and contemporary art that were estimated to raise at least $495 million. In other notable sales of the night, Mark Rothko’s “No. 10” went for $81.9 million, Andy Warhol’s “Colored Mona Lisa” sold for $56.2 million and Lucien Freud’s “Benefits Supervisor Resting” also went for $56.2 million.
