Monday, February 15, 2010

5 Top selling Art pieces


L'Homme qui marche I

Alberto Giacometti's life-size bronze statute set a new world's record when it fetched $104.3 million at an auction in London this week.


L'Homme qui marche I

Pablo Picasso's painting of a Parisian boy smoking a pipe was bought by an anonymous bidder in 1994 for $104.1 million at an auction in New York.

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Picasso also holds the slot for the third highest auction price ever. This portrait of the Spanish painter's lover, painted in 1941, sold for $95.2 million in 2006 at an auction in New York.



Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II

In 2006, this portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt went for $87.9 million at an auction in New York.


The 1912 painting is one of several portraits Klimt made of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the wife of a wealthy industrialist who sponsored the artist.



Francis Bacon's Triptych

This three panel painting by Francis Bacon fetched $86.3 million at an auction in 2008. Sotheby's had estimated it would sell for $70 million.


Credits -cnn

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