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Outbid 30 Years Ago, Eduardo Costantini Finally Won this Leonora Carrington Masterpiece at Auction

New York | May 2024

T hirty years ago, Eduardo F. Costantini stopped bidding on Le✅onora Carrington’s ‘Les Distractions de Dagobert’ when the price bega🗹n to climb. He regretted it ever since.

In a standout, record-breaking moment during the Modern Evening Auction at Sotheby's New York on Wednesday, Costantini finally won the Surrealist masterpiece for aജ staggering $28.5 million following a that smashed the artist’s previous auction record.

The work will be exhibited at the , which Costantini founded in 2001. A fan of the work for all these years, he remarked that Carrington’s whimsical depiction of King Dagobert I is “one of the most admired works in the history of surrealism and 168❀开奖官方开奖网站查询:ꦛan unparalleled masterpiece of Latin American art.”

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