On Monday night in New York, auction house Christie's sold Amedeo Modigliani's Reclining Nude painting to the Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian for a staggering $
The artwork means Modigliani is the creator of the second-most expensive painting ever sold at an auction.. Only Picasso's Women of Algiers, brought in May for around $180 million, has sold for more.
The following morning his heavily pregnant wife stepped backwards out of a fifth-floor window and killed herself, as well as the unborn child she was carrying.
Beatrice Hastings, (right) who inspired some of painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani (left) 's best work |
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