{"id":41130,"date":"2018-05-15T02:45:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T00:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/05\/15\/modigliani-nude-fetches-157-2m-at-sothebys-setting-auction-house-record\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T02:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T00:45:21","slug":"modigliani-nude-fetches-157-2m-at-sothebys-setting-auction-house-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=41130","title":{"rendered":"Modigliani nude fetches $157.2m at Sotheby&#039;s \u2013 setting auction house record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The painting, one of only five nudes ever auctioned, gave Sotheby\u2019s its highest price yet but failed to set a new record for the artistNu couch\u00e9 (sur le c\u00f4t\u00e9 gauche), a reclining nude by the modernist master Amadeo Modigliani, fetched $157.2m last night in New York \u2013 the highest price in Sotheby\u2019s history, but failing to beat the $170m record set for the artist three years ago.Sotheby\u2019s auctioneer Helena Newman led a packed salesroom bidding that started at $125m but stalled at $139m, well short of the 2015 record of $170m (including fees) for another nude, Nu couch\u00e9 (Reclining Nude), at rival Christie\u2019s. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/may\/14\/modigliani-nude-auction-sothebys-new-york-record\" target=\"_blank\">Modigliani nude fetches 7.2m at Sotheby&#039;s \u2013 setting auction house record<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The painting, one of only five nudes ever auctioned, gave Sotheby\u2019s its highest price yet but failed to set a new record for the artistNu couch\u00e9 (sur le c\u00f4t\u00e9 gauche), a reclining nude by the modernist master Amadeo Modigliani, fetched $157.2m last night in New York \u2013 the highest price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}