Friday, November 5, 2010

an icon for our time





just to follow up in the question of the value of portraits, in this case the one of susan rossen painted in 1975 by alice neel (see previous blog entry from july, "problems with portraits"). on november 2, 2010, it was sold at auction by christie's london for 380,000 british pounds, or $614,000. too bad susan couldn't buy it at the time it was painted for $5,000.

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