Modigliani painting sold for a whopping $170.4 million … And that’s not even the most expensive nude pic ever.
Amedeo Modigliani’s “Nu Couché” (1917-18)
Best part of the story is it was bought by a Chinese taxi driver … now a billionaire – Liu Yiqian who is determined to make Shanghai a global center for art.
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Best part of the story is it was bought by a Chinese taxi driver … now a billionaire – Liu Yiqian who is determined to make Shanghai a global center for art.
And Miley can attest sex does sell …
Miley Cyrus BTS of VMAs.
Liu Yiqian, a former taxi driver turned billionaire art collector, Liu Yiqian, and his wife Wang Wei bought Amedeo Modigliani’s 1917 painting of a nude “Nu Couche (Reclining Nude)” for $170.4 million, the second highest auction price ever paid for a work of art.
The priciest piece ever is a Picasso painting that sold in May at Christie’s for $179.4 million, according to Forbes.
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Speaking by telephone from Shanghai, the Chinese collector said he planned to bring the work back to the city, where he and his wife have two private museums.
“We are planning to exhibit it for the museum’s fifth anniversary,” he said. “It will be an opportunity for Chinese art lovers to see good artworks without having to leave the country, which is one of the main reasons why we founded the museums.”
Liu has previously made headlines for his record-breaking purchases of Chinese art. In 2014, he demolished the record for the most expensive Chinese artwork sold at auction not once but twice, spending $36.3 million on a porcelain chicken cup — which he then proceeded to drink from — in April, followed by $45 million on a Tibetan tapestry in November, according to Artnet News.
The sultry painting attracted no less than seven bidders, with a starting price of $75 million.
Liu, 52, may be one of China’s most profligate art collectors but he boasts a classic rags-to-riches story. Having dropped out of school, he started his professional life selling handbags on the street and then drove a taxi. He later went on to make billions on the Chinese stock market in the 1980s and 90s, trading in real estate and pharmaceuticals.
According to the 2015 Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Liu is worth at least $1.5bn.
Forbes reported that Chinese billionaires are showing an increasing appetite for western artwork. In May Sotheby’s sold a Claude Monet painting for $20.4 million to the China’s richest person, Wang Jianlin, and a Picasso to Chinese media mogul Wang Zhongjun for $29.9 million during a New York auction.
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The priciest piece ever is a Picasso painting that sold in May at Christie’s for $179.4 million, according to Forbes.
And Léa Seydoux will soon ask for $200 million for her pussy close-up? You betcha …
Léa Seydoux
Speaking by telephone from Shanghai, the Chinese collector said he planned to bring the work back to the city, where he and his wife have two private museums.
“We are planning to exhibit it for the museum’s fifth anniversary,” he said. “It will be an opportunity for Chinese art lovers to see good artworks without having to leave the country, which is one of the main reasons why we founded the museums.”
Liu has previously made headlines for his record-breaking purchases of Chinese art. In 2014, he demolished the record for the most expensive Chinese artwork sold at auction not once but twice, spending $36.3 million on a porcelain chicken cup — which he then proceeded to drink from — in April, followed by $45 million on a Tibetan tapestry in November, according to Artnet News.
The sultry painting attracted no less than seven bidders, with a starting price of $75 million.
Liu, 52, may be one of China’s most profligate art collectors but he boasts a classic rags-to-riches story. Having dropped out of school, he started his professional life selling handbags on the street and then drove a taxi. He later went on to make billions on the Chinese stock market in the 1980s and 90s, trading in real estate and pharmaceuticals.
According to the 2015 Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Liu is worth at least $1.5bn.
Forbes reported that Chinese billionaires are showing an increasing appetite for western artwork. In May Sotheby’s sold a Claude Monet painting for $20.4 million to the China’s richest person, Wang Jianlin, and a Picasso to Chinese media mogul Wang Zhongjun for $29.9 million during a New York auction.
Melissa Reeves
The sale also made the painting the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and is one of only 10 pieces of art to sell for a nine-figure sum. Nu Couché sold just short of the auction industry’s current overall titleholder, Pablo Picasso’s Les femmes d’Alger – Women of Algiers (Version O), which sold at Christie’s in May for nearly $180m.
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