Modigliani's Reclining Nude Sells for $157.2 Million at Auction
- Price falls short of the artist’s $170.4 million record
- Sue Gross sells a Picasso for $36.9 million to an Asian client
A nude by Amedeo Modigliani sold for $157.2 million at Sotheby’s on Monday, the highest auction result in Sotheby’s 274-year history, in an otherwise tepid sale.
The 1917 “Nu couche (sur le cote gauche)” led Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist and modern art in New York, accounting for half of the evening’s $318.3 million tally. Of the 45 lots offered, 13 failed to find buyers, including pieces by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore and Marc Chagall.