Carrington painting sells for record-breaking £22 million
Leonora Carrington's Les Distractions de Dagobert outsold Dali and Ernst in Sotheby's New York sale, making her one of Britain's most valuable artists
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Leonora Carrington's Les Distractions de Dagobert outsold Dali and Ernst in Sotheby's New York sale, making her one of Britain's most valuable artists
Leonora Carrington was an English-born Mexican Surrealist artist and writer known for her haunting, autobiographical, somewhat inscrutable paintings that incorporate images of sorcery, metamorphosis, alchemy, and the occult. Carrington was raised in a wealthy Roman Catholic family on a large estate
A Monet sold for nearly $35 million at auction Wednesday evening, Sotheby's said, marking a solid start to New York's spring art sales. Christie's, meanwhile, sold some $115 million in contemporary art the prior evening, including a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting for $32 million.
A Monet has sold for nearly R640 million at auction, Sotheby's said, marking a solid start to New York's spring art sales.
The evening sale had a sell-through rate of 96% boosted by the record sale of a Leonora Carrington painting for $28.5 M.