Alessandra Mammì per Dagospia
peter doig "canoe" 
damien hirst
Incalzato da Peter Doig e dai suoi simpatici paesaggetti post-post-post impressionisti, Damien Hirst rischia di scendere al secondo posto nella classifica degli artisti britannici più cari al mondo. E il suo Golden Calf che finora deteneva il record con i suoi 17 e rotti milioni di dollari ( per la precisione 10.3 milioni di sterline) secondo gli esperti potrebbe essere battuto il prossimo 30 giugno all'asta di Sotheby's in quel di Londra, da “ CountryRock (wing mirror)” , solida tela con arcobaleno visto dalla specchietto di un' auto su una autostrada del Canada. Opera dipinta da Doig nel 1999 come parte di un trittico. Stesso anno in cui Damien concepiva il suo “scuoiato” in bronzo che si aggiunse alle indelibili icone dell'atlante contemporaneo.
Peter Doig nel suo studio 
Peter Doig
Non si può dir lo stesso di Doig. Tanto che ciòc he rende interessante l'evento non è il cambio al vertice, quanto che al vertice salga la stupefacente e noiosa banalità dei paesaggi di Doig. No provocazioni, no traumi, no esperimenti. A parte le dimensioni, Doig è un pittore senza tempo, né ambizioni di ricerca. Nato in Scozia nel 1959 e cresciuto tra Trinidad e il Canada a causa del lavoro del babbo, Doig dimostrò subito grandissimo talento artigiano, grande accuratezza nella fattura ma sguardo rivolto a tranquilli mondi ottocenteschi. Un canoa verde alla deriva in acque salmastre ton sur ton, un battello che incaglia tra i cespugli di un fiume piatto, country houses ( tra i suoi temi preferiti) fattorie gialle di grano e mucche +al pascolo (tutte intere). Eppure (o forse per questo ) i suoi prezzi sono in continua crescita e hanno per due volte nel 2013 raggiunto il record di 7,7 milioni di sterline. Charles Saatchi col fiuto di sempre nel 2005 capì che dopo tante vacche squartate e letti sfatti, il mercato chiedeva prodotti più certi e mise Doig al centro della sua famosa mostra londinese sul “Trionfo della pittura”.
peter doig : "1oo years ago" 
damien hirst
Siamo al ritorno all'ordine. Ai pennelli, all'olio su tela, alla destrezza della mano e al quadro blu che onora il divano blu. E' la rivincita del pittore di campagna cresciuto accanto a quelli di città che macinavano soldi e successo, ma interpretavano anche le ansie e le inquietudini del mondo, mentre lui rimasto ai margini per tutti gli anni Novanta e l'inizio del decennio successivo, con un malcelato rancore commentava “loro lavorano molto col packaging io mi concentro sul prodotto fatto in casa”. Parole sante, Signora mia!
| Top 100 Living Artists da ArtNET 2011—2014 |
| RANK ARTIST VALUE SOLD (USD)* LOTS SOLD* |
| 1 Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) US$835,865,579 770 |
| 2 5 Jeff Koons (b. 1955) US$284,184,943 375 |
| 3 6 Zeng Fanzhi (b. 1964) US$224,193,555 214 |
| 4 5 Christopher Wool (b. 1955) US$166,841,745 144 |
| 5 6 Fan Zeng (b. 1938) US$165,920,444 1,314 |
| 6 Cui Ruzhuo (b. 1944) US$147,043,502 178 |
| 7 5 Richard Prince (b. 1949) US$105,356,640 227 |
| 8 5 Zhang Xiaogang (b. 1958) US$101,862,448 187 |
| 9 6 Zhou Chunya (b. 1955) US$95,009,759 355 |
| 10 6 Damien Hirst (b. 1965) US$94,333,108 1,009 |
| 11 6 Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) US$91,877,123 220 |
| 12 Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) US$90,707,958 1,529 |
| 13 6 He Jiaying (b. 1957) US$84,680,934 362 |
| 14 6 Huang Yongyu (b. 1924) US$74,542,552 844 |
| 15 Fernando Botero (b. 1932) US$66,721,428 256 |
| 16 5 Peter Doig (b. 1959) US$64,866,912 124 |
| 17 Ju Ming (b. 1938) US$63,976,561 349 |
| 18 5 Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) US$62,606,928 459 |
| 19 5 Liu Wei (b. 1965) US$60,616,637 182 |
| 20 6 Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) US$58,659,865 1,602 |
| 21 6 Pierre Soulages (b. 1919) US$57,869,559 359 |
| 22 6 Luo Zhongli (b. 1948) US$55,913,262 257 |
| 23 Wang Yidong (b. 1955) US$53,709,628 127 |
| 24 5 Mark Grotjahn (b. 1968) US$51,433,461 70 |
| 25 5 Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) US$51,288,024 334 |
| 26 Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) US$49,983,301 326 |
| 27 6 Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) US$49,622,863 117 |
| 28 6 Andreas Gursky (b. 1955) US$49,482,357 121 |
| 29 6 Robert Indiana (b. 1928) US$48,649,652 540 |
| 30 Anish Kapoor (b. 1954) US$45,848,961 141 |
| 31 6 David Hockney (b. 1937) US$45,340,593 1,273 |
| 32 6 Yang Feiyun (b. 1954) US$45,211,051 90 |
| 33 5 Liu Ye (b. 1964) US$44,723,193 157 |
| 34 5 Rudolf Stingel (b. 1956) US$44,178,010 83 |
| 35 5 Robert Ryman (b. 1930) US$43,474,836 41 |
| 36 5 Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959) US$43,424,630 537 |
| 37 6 Chen Peiqiu (b. 1922) US$43,054,720 604 |
| 38 6 Jin Shangyi (b. 1934) US$40,835,475 31 |
| 39 5 Frank Stella (b. 1936) US$40,431,013 491 |
| 40 6 Wang Mingming (b. 1952) US$39,890,210 580 |
| 41 6 Jia Youfu (b. 1942) US$39,614,112 336 |
| 42 6 Ai Xuan (b. 1947) US$39,351,130 150 |
| 43 6 Glenn Brown (b. 1966) US$39,225,444 19 |
| 44 6 Fang Lijun (b. 1963) US$37,835,878 125 |
| 45 6 Liu DaWei (b. 1945) US$37,412,494 464 |
| 46 6 Shi Guoliang (b. 1956) US$37,130,176 462 |
| 47 6 Miquel Barceló (b. 1957) US$35,698,042 115 |
| 48 Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923) US$35,462,645 334 |
| 49 5 Lee Ufan (b. 1936) US$34,742,810 251 |
| 50 5 John Currin (b. 1962) US$34,059,875 38 |
| 51 5 Wade Guyton (b. 1972) US$33,670,462 66 |
| 52 6 Jasper Johns (b. 1930) US$32,743,525 403 |
| 53 6 Enrico Castellani (b. 1930) US$32,559,077 163 |
| 54 6 Wang Ziwu (b. 1936) US$30,211,561 378 |
| 55 5 Yue Minjun (b. 1962) US$30,100,252 144 |
| 56 6 George Condo (b. 1957) US$28,195,751 242 |
| 57 6 Frank Auerbach (b. 1931) US$26,799,237 94 |
| 58 5 Brice Marden (b. 1938) US$26,114,977 88 |
| 59 6 Liu Wenxi (b. 1933) US$25,966,716 312 |
| 60 6 Xue Liang (b. 1956) US$25,841,088 338 |
| 61 5 Urs Fischer (b. 1973) US$25,645,689 39 |
| 62 6 Sayed Haider Raza (b. 1922) US$24,185,387 225 |
| 63 6 Sean Scully (b. 1945) US$23,884,205 200 |
| 64 6 Fang Chuxiong (b. 1950) US$23,790,616 760 |
| 65 5 Liu Xiaodong (b. 1963) US$22,383,712 39 |
| 66 6 Song Yugui (b. 1940) US$22,319,971 170 |
| 67 6 Günther Uecker (b. 1930) US$21,782,546 358 |
| 68 5 Michelangelo Pistoletto (b. 1933) US$21,582,717 297 |
| 69 5 Thomas Schütte (b. 1954) US$21,422,080 56 |
| 70 6 Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) US$21,160,644 85 |
| 71 5 David Hammons (b. 1943) US$20,778,412 24 |
| 72 6 Xu Lele (b. 1955) US$20,608,223 396 |
| 73 6 Zhou Yansheng (b. 1942) US$20,595,400 256 |
| 74 6 Fan Yang (b. 1955) US$20,277,824 623 |
| 75 Antony Gormley (b. 1950) US$20,260,688 93 |
| 76 6 Bridget Riley (b. 1931) US$20,076,848 214 |
| 77 5 Mark Tansey (b. 1949) US$19,806,563 20 |
| 78 6 Wang Guangyi (b. 1957) US$18,958,335 130 |
| 79 6 Wang Xijing (b. 1946) US$18,936,584 450 |
| 80 6 Lin Yong (b. 1942) US$18,871,129 605 |
| 81 6 Guo Runwen (b. 1955) US$18,764,484 74 |
| 82 Mark Bradford (b. 1961) US$18,739,195 28 |
| 83 6 Yang Zhiguang (b. 1930) US$18,672,367 506 |
| 84 6 Chen Danqing (b. 1953) US$18,433,370 62 |
| 85 6 Marc Quinn (b. 1964) US$18,190,065 135 |
| 86 6 Richard Serra (b. 1939) US$17,516,233 185 |
| 87 6 Tian Liming (b. 1955) US$17,409,684 304 |
| 88 6 Martial Raysse (b. 1936) US$16,996,597 47 |
| 89 Julie Mehretu (b. 1970) US$16,930,540 32 |
| 90 6 Albert Oehlen (b. 1954) US$16,867,962 61 |
| 91 5 Carlos Cruz-Diez (b. 1923) US$16,611,046 151 |
| 92 6 Feng Yuan (b. 1952) US$16,218,083 241 |
| 93 6 Leng Jun (b. 1963) US$16,020,789 111 |
| 94 Chen Yanning (b. 1945) US$15,387,421 104 |
| 95 6 Banksy (b. 1974) US$15,368,780 380 |
| 96 6 Marlene Dumas (b. 1953) US$15,328,197 115 |
| 97 6 Cecily Brown (b. 1969) US$15,314,026 42 |
| 98 5 Vik Muniz (b. 1961) US$15,221,708 323 |
| 99 Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) US$15,020,124 81 |
| 100 He Duoling (b. 1948) US$14,974,089 73 |
| *Measured from January 1, 2011 through May 31, 2014. Data courtesy of artnet Analytics. |
