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A painting of a young girl with sunflowers by Mexican painter Diego Rivera fetched $495,000 at an auction Tuesday at Christie’s, setting a world record price for a work by a Latin American artist, the New York auction house said. The painting was bought by the Gerald Peters gallery of Santa Fe, N.M. The record price for a painting by a Latin American artist was set in 1984 when Sotheby’s sold a Diego Rivera for $429,000.
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