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How many things can woman keep between her legs: one Globe, two Posts and only God knows how many Times.


Сведения о картине (это совершенно не кстати, но просто интересно):

Travelling Woman with Newspaper, 1947 - 48
Sold stg£ 1.158,000 - Euro 1.741, 722 - US$1.557,675
Sotheby's, London, The Irish Sale, 18 May 2000


Travelling Woman with Newspaper sells for £1.15 million

SOTHEBY'S PRESS RELEASE:
SOTHEBY'S SETS NEW WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR IRELAND'S FOREMOST CONTEMPORARY ARTIST.

A PAINTING by Louis le Brocquy, Ireland's foremost contemporary artist, sold for £1.2 million at Sotheby's in London on May 18, 2000. The price represents a new world auction record for the artist and places him within a very select group of artists whose works have commanded prices in excess of £1 million during their lifetimes. Among British and Irish painters, only Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and David Hockney have equalled this feat. Travelling Woman with Newspaper, a masterpiece by the man acknowledged as the greatest painter working in Ireland today and certainly the most important Irish Modernist painting ever to appear at auction, sold for a staggering £1,158,500. Mark Adams, Sotheby's specialist in charge of the sale, said: "In these days the £1 million barrier is increasingly seen as the surest test of an artist's international importance and it is a very rare event for a living painter to break it. Le Brocquy's achievement marks him out as one of the painters, like Freud and Hockney, who will come to symbolise this age."