The estate of Yves Saint Laurent is auctioned in Paris.
The Archibald Prize finalists have been announced.
So quite a few paintings (peintures) on display on both sides of the world...
Your favourite iPhone app brings you not A painting, but LA peinture by Henri Matisse, which sold on Monday for €32.1 million — a record price for a work by the French artist at auction.
(yep, that's the one on the picture. Enjoy it: at that price, each pixel on the screen is worth €220)
The sale came at the start of a three-day Paris auction of art from the collection of the late French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent that some are calling "the sale of the century".
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Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé built this collection over more than 50 years.
After Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71, Bergé chose to part with the 732 pieces, collected to grace the couple's apartments.
Bergé, a 79-year-old business tycoon and patron of the arts, said before the sale that "the day Yves Saint Laurent died, I decided this collection had run its course," he said. "It was something we created together. Selling it was the only possible solution."
During the inaugural session of the three-day auction, 59 works of Impressionist and Modern Art sold for a total of € 206 million.
Proceeds from the three days of sales will be split between medical research and the fight against AIDS, and a Bergé/Saint Laurent Foundation honouring the designer's work.
More on the Archibald Prize:
http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2009/entertainment/archibald-prize-finalists/index.html
The backroom workers of the Art Gallery of New South Wales picked out their favourite Archibald portrait - a Paul Jackson painting of comedian Paul 'Flacco' Livingstone.
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