Diamond sculpture ‘to raise $12m’
September 19th, 2007 by Lesley
From BBC News - An 8ft (2.5m) sculpture of a diamond by US artist Jeff Koons is expected to raise around $12m (£6m) when it is sold at auction in November. Part of the artist’s famed Celebration series, the blue “diamond” is in fact made of polished steel and chromium. It will be auctioned at a Christie’s sale of post-war and contemporary art in New York on 13 November. An Andy Warhol portrait of Elizabeth Taylor is expected to fetch $25m (£12m) at the same auction. Liz (Colored Liz) is one of the artist’s iconic celebrity portraits from the mid-1960s. Full Story.
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