$13.5 Million for Titian’s ‘Venus’
A painting of Venus and Adonis by Titian and his workshop sold for $13.5 million at auction on Friday. Christie’s auction house said it was the highest price paid in the world this year for a work of art.
Susan Adams of Christie’s said the previous high price this year was $10.9 million, for Degas’ “Racehorses,” which was sold by Christie’s in June.
The painting, a second version of the work displayed in the Prado in Madrid, was purchased by London dealers Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox in partnership with New York dealer Herman Shickman.
The London dealers declined to say where the painting, dated circa 1555, was destined.
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