It was another record auction price for an artist.
In yesterday's sale, it broke its record auction price, $16.4 million, set in July 1990.
East Asian collectors have paid record auction prices for contemporary Indian artists including Subodh Gupta, T.V. Santosh, N.S.
One of his tables, glass and oak and architectural, fetched a world-record auction price of $3.8 million.
Estimate, $250,000-350,000.POSTSCRIPT 250,000-350,000.POSTSCRIPTought by Joseph LAndy WarholKong collector, for $17.36m, a world record auction price for the artist.
A world record auction was thus established for Eduardo Chillida when an eight-meter-high chunk of steel executed in 2001 sold for £4.09 million.
The colorful Cubist painting, which was expected to bring $18 million to $25 million, sold to an unidentified telephone bidder for $28.6 million, a record auction price.
INDIA BOILS Indian contemporary art went at record auction prices, even as its best-selling artist, M. F. Husain, remained in exile.
The record auction price for a Possum painting is $68,000, paid by an Australian public gallery last year for one of his earliest works, a 1972 landscape.
Lowry's 1953 work Going to the Match fetched a record auction price for a modern British painting when the Professional Footballers Associationn bought it for £1,926,500 last December.
