A portrait by British painter Lucien Freud sold at Christie's auction house on May 20 for US$15.7 million (NT$520 million). That's a new record for a living European artist.
The 1992 painting was of Freud's friend Bruce Bernard. Bernard is a photographer and an art critic.
The Freud was part of a sale of post-war and contemporary art which included works by Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol and had a total value of almost NT$4.9 billion.
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Among the other works in the sale were Warhol's Three Marilyns, which fetched NT$370 million, and Bacon's Two Men Working in a Field, which sold for NT$333 million.
Another Bacon, Landscape with a car, sold for NT$282 million.
Monet's Nympheas, which had not been seen in public since 1936, was sold on May 19 for NT$1.2 billion, the second-highest price tag ever for the artist at auction.
英國畫家魯西安.佛洛伊德的一幅肖像畫五月二十日在佳士得拍賣會上以一千五百七十萬美元(新台幣五億兩千萬元)的天價成交,創下歐洲現存畫家作品新高紀錄。
這幅布魯斯.柏納肖像畫是佛洛伊德一九九二年的作品。身為佛洛伊德摯友的布魯斯.柏納不但是個攝影師,也是位藝術評論家。
佛洛伊德的這幅肖像畫只是「戰後及當代藝術」類拍賣品之一,包括弗蘭西斯.培根與安迪.沃荷的作品在內,拍賣總成交價逼近新台幣四十九億元。
沃荷的《三個夢露》和培根的《在田野中工作的男人》也在拍賣品之列,分別以新台幣三億七千萬元和新台幣三億三千三百萬元成交。
培根的另一幅作品《風景與車》則以新台幣兩億八千兩百萬元賣出。
一九三六年以來從未曝光過的莫內名畫《睡蓮》,五月十九日以新台幣十二億元賣出,創下莫內畫作拍賣第二高價紀錄。
(法新社/翻譯:林倩如)
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