168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Nu couché is not only the largest work from 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Amedeo Modigliani's career and his greatest nude, it is now the most valuable work ever sold at Sothebys—selling for $157 million in the 14 May 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale. 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Nu couché was acq💃uired by its previous owner at auction in 2003 for $26.9 ꦇmillion.
In 2010, the Modigliani oil painting 168开奖官方ไ开奖网站查询:Nu Assisꦓ Sur Un Divan (La Belle Romaine) also of 1917 sold at Sotheby's New York for $69 million. In 2014 his 1911–12 sculpture Tête achieved $70.7 million at Sotheby'♔s New York, which was the second highest price for the artist at auction prior to this evening's sale.
Painted a century ago, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) is the greatest work from the iconic series in which 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Amedeo Modigliani reinvented the nude for the Modern era. Upon their debut exhibition in 1917, these striking and sensual images quite literally stopped traffic and prompted the police to close the show. Today, the series is recognized as one of the seminal achievements in Modern painting. The shock and awe that Modigliani’s nudes continue to elicit was evident during recent celebrated retrospective of the artist’s work that included 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) as its cover star.
In addition to being the finest example from the series, 168开奖官方开奖网站查询:Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) is distinguished further as the largest painting of Modigliani’s entire oeuvre – measuring nearly 58 inches (147 centimeters) across – and the only one of his horizontal nudes to contain the entire figure within ♊the canvas. The majority of the 22 reclining nudes from the series are found in museums, with particular depth in the United States: the , and in New York each hold three examples. Outside of the United States, institutions with reclining nudes include the in Shanghai and in London.
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