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All sorts of records were shattered with this one. At Sotheby's Contemporary art auction yesterday there was a Rothko painting called White Center, being sold by David Rockefeller. The bring in for this piece was estimated to be 46 million dollars. Imagine everyones shock when a mystery man from the skybox took it for a whopping 72.84 million!!!
This is the Rothko:
There were other records made as well. There was a Francis Bacon piece that sold upwards of 50 mil. and a Basquiat got a 14.6 mil.
All in all Sotheby's brought in more than 250 mil on Tuesday. And who says art doesn't pay.
1 comment:
I should have been an artist.
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