/ world as we speak information/ A portray by German artist Gerhard Richter, owned by guitarist Eric Clapton, was offered at public sale for $34.2 million.
The quantity is a file for a piece by a residing artist, notes Sotheby’s public sale home. Eric Clapton purchased “Abstraktes Bild” in 2001 in New York together with two different work for the “modest sum” of $3.4 million.
The worth achieved is a file for a piece by Richter, for whose “Summary Image” in Could of this 12 months 21.9 million {dollars} have been paid, btv reported.
The 80-year-old German is the best-selling residing artist worldwide. Born in Dresden, Richter grew up in communist Germany – GDR. The artist presently lives in Cologne, the place he paints in his studio for 8 to 12 hours a day.
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