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Jackson Pollock painting sells for record $181m at auction
Jackson Pollock’s 1948 work "Number 7A" sold for $181 million at Christie’s New York auction, smashing his previous auction record and becoming the fourth most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. The piece, from media magnate SI Newhouse’s private collection, was described as one of history’s first truly abstract paintings; a Constantin Brancusi bronze sculpture from the same collection fetched $107.6 million (second highest for a sculpture at auction), while works by Mark Rothko and Joan Miro also broke their respective artist records at the event.
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