Record-Breaking Bidding Battle Hits $28.5 Million for Leonora Carrington Surrealist Masterpiece 

Nice. I like how the auctioneer gave the person in the room the benefit of the doubt and not wasting any more time. Sometimes it pays to have something done in person, on site.

The fact that in 1945 she was 28 and pregnant when she was creating this painting is a +

I am homeless and I can see the beauty and the investment in art. ✌️

0145 Sat 18/05/24 ..just saw video interview of buyer constantini posted by sotheby's...amazing story of love of art paintings...well done for waiting 30 years to try your luck again and win the bid this time...great story...

Each bid increment of $1M is enough to set up a person for life. The price of bragging rights among the super rich.

Love it!

Looks like a Bosch study

Very nice

Worth every million. #SothebysMatter

This painting was found on an Antiques Road Show!

Pleased to see a female artist fetching such high prices. I love this painting by Leonara.

I read the negative comments and think we want to value art but we become disgusted when people pay for art. Perhaps we should pick a lane.

¡Bien Eduardo!

現場的買走了，厲害😂😂😂

Curious if the auctioneer makes a commission as they really do an amazing job of trickling up the price tag ?

its stunning, so much going on in this painting

why does the description say 28.5 and the auctioneer says 24.5??

Finally

How can u not be inspired to know, theres people out here who can piss away $28M on art

Holy damn....

I have an odd reaction watching this: there should be a revolution. I am rich, but seeing people so casually tossing around millions for a single painting to hang on a wall when most people scrape by living paycheck to paycheck. It seems obscene.

24?

Comparing to those rich but stingy to their employees while showing off their lavish vacations all the time, these ultra rich who understand and collect art works are much more appreciated.

It’s strange watching the way that millions are spent here. Keep in mind that add another 25% for Christie’s and that’s the total .

Art auctions always seem to me to be the way really rich people show that they hate each other.

My bid 24 million and a penny! 😂

1148 Tue 21/05/24 BREAKING NEWS....christies brought back social commentary online...and realised sotheby's doing better on viewing ratings and PR, Publicity, People Person Skills..🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧..well done sotheby for being ahead of the game...💪👍❤️🇬🇧

Hola cordiales saludos . porque no contestan .

Was it sold for $24,5 or $28,5m? I heared $24,5m.

This sale was clearly THE story of the 2024 auction season. It was nail biting. Sell prices are about supply and demand. Like real estate, manipulation in the art market does exist but this is not the case with Leonora Carrington. Her accolades have been a long time coming. "Women surrealists" are in vogue and Carrington is leading the charge. Respectfully, I bow, but she is not the best of this school. Carrington's Bosch-like subject matter is discussed extensively. What isn't discussed is Carrington's lack of compositional skills, coloration, and the collapsing of negative space, as if these skills don't matter. Among this noise, there is nowhere for the eye to rest. This observation is not a critique. It's a matter of fact and not my preference. Carrington's vision is free flowing, not bound by traditional norms of artistic excellence. Some critics say Carrington is an amateur, others a genius. Pick your poison, Chopin's Nocturnes or Tool's Aenima? There is another lesser known surrealist in this school, Gertrude Ambercrombie. Her magic is as spellbinding as Carrington's but whose grasp of composition, color, and negative space is as charged as her subject matter. Gertrude Abercrombie's paintings are singular, nightmares in a Ikebana basket.

#ShothebysHauseInEngland And Hause.

Soo sad that she never got this money when she was alive and could have used that amount of cash to further her Art career : (

Think of all the people you could feed with $28,500,000.00 …………………………..

Eat the rich .

Hola cordiales saludos .bla bla bla

Not for me. 😬

The world is insanely unfair 😢This is disgusting 😢

applause for merely writing a big check

Is the older man who got it the wealthy person himself? Or does he represent a rich person or an investor group or a corporation? Do the obscenely wealthy get their hands dirty by actually touching an auction house paddle & sitting in a chair next to other humans?