Tucky Art » Highest Selling Art http://tuckyart.com/blog Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:28:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 “…#1…” http://tuckyart.com/blog/2010/05/07/1/ http://tuckyart.com/blog/2010/05/07/1/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 14:00:48 +0000 admin http://tuckyart.com/blog/?p=1853 Picasso- Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust“Nude, Green Leaves, and Bust” by Pablo Picasso is now the #1 highest selling piece of art in the world.

It sold for $106.5 Million.

The auction took place on Tuesday May 4th, and you can click on the picture for more details about that.

And you thought there was a recession….

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“Walking Man” a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, sold for $104.3 million in Feb 2010.  (Click the photo for an article about it.)

The 1960s sculpture only held the title for a couple of months before a newly auctioned piece broke the record to become the highest seller of all time…..

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This painting to the left, “Boy with a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)” by Pablo Picasso, was once #1 and is now #3. 

The painting, created in 1905, sold for 104.1 Million in 2004.

Click the pic for an article about it.

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