David Hockney Smashes Record For Most Expensive Work By Living Artist
(ArtsJournal Dance)

With a total price of $90.3 million at Christie’s last night, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972) became the most expensive piece by a living artist ever sold at auction. Even more unusually, “the Hockney painting went to the block without any type of guarantee - almost unheard of in this day […]