Take a closer look at the most expensive work sold by a living artist.
, a stainless steel work inspired by inflatable toys, sold at Christie’s for $91.1 million. It is now the most expensive work by a living artist ever sold at auction. David Hockney had set the record just this past November, when his 1972 paintingwas auctioned as part of the collection of the late publishing magnate S.I. Newhouse Jr., who passed away in October 2017 . Christie’s put up six items from the collection for sale on Wednesday, and they fetched a combined $115 million.
, 1994–2000, at Christie’s in 2013. That price was the record for most expensive work by a living artist before Hockney broke it last year, and before Koons took back his crown.buyer? None other than Robert E. Mnuchin, art dealer and father to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, infamous for his and
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