Richter painting breaks record for living artist
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A 1968 oil painting by German artist Gerhard Richter has set a new record in New York for the highest auction price achieved by a work by a living artist.
Richter's photo-painting Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral Square, Milan) sold for $37.1 million (£24.4 million) at Tuesday's sale.
Tobias Meyer of Sotheby's called the price "a major accomplishment".
Richter, 81, also held the previous record for the top price fetched at auction by a living artist.
His abstract painting, Abstraktes Bild, sold for £21.3m in 2012.
Onement VI, a 1953 work by abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman's Onement VI, set a new record for the US artist after selling for $43.8m (£28.7m).
A Francis Bacon work that had been estimated to sell for as much as $40m (£26.2m) failed to attract a buyer.


















































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