A whoop it up by British artist David Hockney has sold for more than $90 million — a excellent record price for a work by a living artist.
“Portrait of an Artist (Tarn with Two Figures)” was sold at auction in New York for $90,312,500, Christie’s auction concern announced Friday.
Bidding on the 1972 painting opened at $18 million and quick surpassed the previous record held by “Balloon Dog (Orange),” a play by Jeff Koons that sold for $58 million in 2013.
Hockney’s make-up, described by Christie’s as a “masterpiece,” was sold in under 10 minutes.
It happened last year in an exhibition named after the artist, opening at London’s Tate Britain in February previous to touring to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
The artist unrestrained the painting in 1971 before returning to the idea the following year. It was completed the unendingly before being transported to New York’s Andre Emmerich Gallery for presentation.