It’s been a serious gross sales week for the artwork market in New York, with a Gustav Klimt portrait fetching greater than $236 million on Tuesday, making it the second-most costly portray ever offered at public sale, and a surrealist self-portrait by Frida Kahlo promoting for $54.7 million on Thursday, breaking the public sale document for a piece by a lady. Each items had been offered by Sotheby’s, whose whole gross sales for the week surpassed $1 billion, with Christie’s shut behind. The surge has led analysts to declare that the artwork market is rebounding after a three-year stoop, and artwork historian Ernst Ulrich Leeben joins us for extra perception.
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