tebop opened this issue on May 15, 2007 · 86 posts
drifterlee posted Wed, 16 May 2007 at 11:53 AM
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Mark Rothko's painting was sold by philanthropist David Rockefeller
**The auction record for post-war art has been smashed twice in one night.**Francis Bacon's portrait Study from Innocent X fetched $52.6m (£26.5m) at Sotheby's in New York - almost double the previous high for a Bacon work.
That was followed by a price of $72.8m (£36.7m) for US abstract artist Mark Rothko's 1950 work White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose). "
I need to find the buyer so I can sell them the Brooklyn Bridge, LOL.