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BERLIN (AP) – A self-portrait painted during World War II by German expressionist artist Max Beckmann sold on Thursday in Berlin for EUR20 million (USD20.7 million), a price that appears to be a record for an art auction in Germany. The buyer of Beckmann’s Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink at the Grisebach auction house in the German capital […]
IT TOOK TWO MINUTES and forty-eight seconds to settle on twenty million euros as the hammer price of the most expensive artwork ever sold in Germany. It was a self-portrait by Max Beckmann from 1943 that hung behind an impressively soft-spoken auctioneer on Thursday night. A piece of theater at once slight and dumbfounding, it was all very German. Grisebach, it said on the lectern in red sans-serif font that recalled the logo of the Deutsche Bahn. It is an unlikely house for such a sale, the kind usually taken to Manhattan or Mayfair. But we were in Charlottenburg, and the room was packed.
Beckmann self-portrait breaks German auction record
BERLIN (AP) -- A self-portrait painted during World War II by German expressionist artist Max Beckmann sold Thursday in Berlin for 20 million euros ($20.7
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