Friday, 3. November 2006
Topic: ART - on November 3, 2006 at 10:13:00 AM CET
Mexican splashes out record $140m for Jackson Pollock's drops of genius
If the price that has been reported is accurate, every square foot of the piece of fibreboard that was sold in New York this week cost more than $4m (£2.1m). But then it was covered in an intricate web of lines in reds, yellows, blues and greys, splashed on to it by a man called Jackson Pollock.
The $140m quoted as the price obtained by Sotheby's for Pollock's Number 5, 1948 would make it the highest figure known to have ever been paid for a painting.
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