A 1968 oil
painting by German artist Gerhard Richter has set a new record in New York for
the highest auction price achieved by a work by a living artist.
Richter's photo-painting Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral
Square, Milan) sold for $37.1 million (£24.4 million) at Tuesday's sale.
Tobias Meyer of Sotheby's called the price "a
major accomplishment".
Richter, 81, also held the previous record for the
top price fetched at auction by a living artist.
His abstract painting, Abstraktes Bild,
sold for £21.3m in 2012.
Sotheby's
described Domplatz, Mailand, which depicts a cityscape painted in a style that
suggests a blurred photograph, as a "masterpiece of 20th Century art"
and the "epitome" of the artist's 1960s photo-painting canon.
The price
achieved was more than 10 times as much as the then-record $3.5m (£2.3m) it
commanded at Sotheby's in London 15 years ago.
Don Bryant,
founder of Napa Valley's Bryant Family Vineyard and the painting's new owner,
said the work "just knocks me over".
Onement VI, a
1953 work by abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman's Onement VI, set a
new record for the US artist after selling for $43.8m (£28.7m).
A Francis Bacon
work that had been estimated to sell for as much as $40m (£26.2m) failed to
attract a buyer.
Source: BBC
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