Eric Clapton sells Richter painting for record $34.2 mln
- Published: 13 Oct 2012 at 07.49
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A painting by Gerhard Richter owned by British guitarist Eric Clapton has sold for pound sterling21.3 million ($34.2 million, 26.4 million euros), a record for the work of a living artist, auction house Sotheby's said.
German artist Gerhard Richter, pictured at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, in June. A painting by Richter owned by British guitarist Eric Clapton has sold for £21.3 million ($34.2 million, 26.4 million euros), a record for the work of a living artist, according to auction house Sotheby's.
An anonymous bidder bought the red, blue and yellow oil painting on canvas, "Abstraktes Bild (809-4)", in London on Friday for more than ten times the $3.4 million that Clapton paid for the painting plus two others in New York in 2001.
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