I warned you!
Posted on 05/20/2008 3:13:01 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
"Benefits Supervisor Sleeping," a nude by artist Lucian Freud, sold for more than 34 million dollars (22 million euros) in New York Tuesday, becoming the most expensive work ever by a living artist.
The Christie's sale busted the record held by "Hanging Heart," by American artist Jeff Koons, which fetched 23.4 million dollars (15.1 million euros) at Sotheby's in New York late last year.
The 1995 oil painting of a corpulent woman curled naked and sleeping on a sofa was touted ahead of time as the headliner for Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sales.
Christie's has raked in 348 million dollars (226 million euros) for its spring sales, the auction house announced late Tuesday, demonstrating for the second consecutive week, after robust impressionist sales at Sotheby's and Christie's last week, that the faltering US economy has not gutted the international art market.
Of 57 works on offer in Tuesday's contemporary art sale at Christie's, 95 percent sold. Seventy percent were snapped up by US collectors, 26 percent by Europeans and four by Asians, according to Britt Corvy, an organizer of Tuesday's sale.
Thirty-five percent of the artworks sold for more than their estimated price, and 11 percent for less, he said.
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oh well, there goes breakfast...
Gosh, I wonder what a painting of a nude Helen Thomas would bring?
Much spontaneous vomiting.
You are a sick, twistd individual!
Any hog-callers out there...?
Maybe the winning bidder really really liked the picture frame.
Well, that’ll keep the rats out of the barn...
GUILTY!!
You are good.
I’ll never understand art collectors.
I wouldn’t hang that in my house if someone paid me.
I’m sure I’ve seen her at several Hillary conventions.
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