A nearly 100-year-old painting of an alluring nude created by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani sold for $170.4 million on Monday night — the second-highest price ever paid at auction for a work of ...
The art market showed unexpected strength Monday night as Christie’s kicked off its November sales week with the record auction price of $170 million, including fees, for Amedeo Modigliani’s ...
Classic images from art history, a doe-eyed female nude by Modigliani and a seminal Monet waterlily attracted bidders from around the world on Tuesday night at Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist and ...
A masterpiece that was once censored on the grounds of obscenity has now set a new auction record. Sotheby’s has announced that “Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)” (1917) by the Italian artist Amedeo ...
Sotheby's on Tuesday unveiled a painting by Amedeo Modigliani that's expected to fetch more than $150 million at next month's auction, making it one of the most expensive ever to go under the hammer.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A nude portrait by Amedeo Modigliani sold for $157.2 million at Sotheby's on Monday, achieving the 4th-highest price for any work of art at auction but failing to set a new record ...
Sotheby’s evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art was a study in contrasts. The auction saw a nude by Modigliani become the fourth most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. Despite the ...
A 1917 painting by Amedeo Modigliani of a reclining nude woman that was once considered obscene in Paris sold for over $157 million at an auction in Manhattan on Monday. “Nu couche (sur le cote gauche ...
A 1917 painting by Amedeo Modigliani of a reclining nude woman sold for over $157 million at an auction in Manhattan. "Nucouche (sur le cote gauche)" was the highlight of Sotheby's "Impressionist & ...
As rock-star artists go, Amedeo Modigliani is an unlikely candidate. Born in 1884 on a kitchen table in Livorno, Italy, to Sephardic Jewish parents who soon declared bankruptcy, Modigliani was plagued ...