The bet was not won in advance! Tuesday, June 27, in London, Sotheby's has nevertheless succeeded in its challenge. Sell, above its estimate of 65 million pounds (nearly 76 million euros), The Woman with the Fan by Gustav Klimt. Ten million more, at the end of a ten-minute battle, which make everything a success.
The painting of the famous Austrian painter went to 74 million pounds, or more than 86 million euros. As a skilled communicator, Patrick Drahi's house also announces it in dollars, to cross the psychological threshold and -oh so media! - $100 million, to $108 million. The world reference currency to position it as number one record.
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This is a record for the artist who dethrones the Birch Forest, having reached $ 104.6 million, at the sale of the collection of Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, last November, at Christie's in New York (historic product of $ 1.5 billion). It is also...
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