An Amedeo Modigliani painting of a nude brunette lounging on tousled bedsheets and peering over her right shoulder sold for $157.2 million at Sotheby’s on Monday, one of the few paintings to ever surpass $150 million at auction. On the heels of rival Christie’s $833 million sale of David Rockefeller’s estate last week, Sotheby’s set out to steal some of the spotlight with Modigliani’s 1917 “Reclining Nude” by asking $150 million for the painting—the highest price ever placed on an artwork headed to auction.

Source: Wall Street Journal May 15, 2018 04:06 UTC