$10.3 Million Paid for Rembrandt Work
A Rembrandt portrait of a young girl sold at auction Wednesday for $10.3 million, the highest price ever paid for a painting by the artist.
It is the first major Rembrandt work to be auctioned in 21 years.
Sotheby’s auction house said the winning bid for “Portrait of a Girl Wearing a Gold-Trimmed Coat” was made by an agent acting for a private collector who was not identified.
The previous record for a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn was $2.3 million for the 17th-Century artist’s “Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer” bought in 1961 by the Metropolitan Museum of New York. That was the highest auction price for a painting at that time.
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