Sold to the painting "Untitled" for $ 70 million

Sold to the painting "Untitled" for $ 70 million

Sold panel Untitled late American painter Cy Twombly in the amount of $ 70.5 million check to a record and led the auction of contemporary art held by Sotheby's auction house on Wednesday to sales of more than $ 295 million.
And it sold the painting-like lines in chalk on a blackboard and dates back to 1968 to a buyer not be identified and exceeded the price at which its ability Sotheby's before the auction and $ 60 million.
The previous time that the painting was raised at an auction in 1990 and has made $ 3.9 million.
Sotheby's auction included 54 works of art made a total of 295.85 million dollars.
The auction house Christie's has recorded the second highest rate in the history of art auctions, on Monday, when it was sold to the painting "Nu Cochet" of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani compared to 170.4 million dollars.