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Christie 's auction house announced a new world record on Friday night: Never before has an auction paid more for the image of a living painter. The auction house referred to the British David Hockney and his work "Portrait of an Artist – A Double Digit Pool". She reported at the auction in New York about $ 90.3 million, the equivalent of nearly 80 million euros. This includes the auction fees already included.
The acrylic painting was created in 1972 and measures 213.5 x 305 centimeters. "Portrait of an Artist" is one of Hockney's works in the pool. You can see a man dressed at the edge of a swimming pool, he looks at another man swimming on him under the water.
Hockney thus replaced the disc that the artist Jeff Koons previously held at Christie's: his steel sculpture "Balloon Dog" had sold the company in 2013 for $ 58.4 million. You will find other record prices in the following photo gallery:
Hockney was born in 1937 in Bradford, United Kingdom. In 1959 he moved to London to study at the Royal College of Art. In 1964, he moved again, this time to California. His paintings are characterized by beautiful colors, nature, naked men and a lot of irony. The series of Hockney pools are now iconographic.
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