»Rare Botticelli Portrait Sells for Record $92.2 Million at Auction at New York s Sotheby s
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Rare Botticelli Portrait Sells for Record $92.2 Million at Auction at New York s Sotheby s
FILE PHOTO: A worker at Sotheby s Auctions poses with Sandro Botticelli s Young Man Holding a Roundel during a preview.
REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo
The Renaissance artist s Young Man Holding a Roundel is one of only around a dozen of his portraits known to survive today.
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A rare Botticelli portrait sold for $92.2 million at auction at Sotheby s in New York on Thursday, a world record for any work by the Italian artist.
NEW YORK: A portrait by Italian renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli sold for $92 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York Thursday, smashing the record price for the artist.