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A painting by Lucian Freud has been sold for a whopping sum of $12 million. The painting by the grandson of the great Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is titled ‘Girl in Attic Doorway’ and was bought by an anonymous buyer at Art Basel, the world’s largest fair of modern and contemporary art. William R Acquavella of Acquavella galleries that sold the painting remarked that they cannot reveal the details of the person who has bought the painting.
The exhibition began on Wednesday but the canvas dating from the mid-1990s, had been reserved during much of the fair’s preview Tuesday. According to sources, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich had visited the Acquavella booth. Sheikh Saud Al-Thani, cousin of the emir of Qatar, and Hollywood actor Brad Pitt were also amongst the high profile visitors present at the preview. Last month, Freud became the world’s most expensive living artist after his painting ‘Benefits Supervisor Sleeping’, sold for $33.6 million at Christie’s International in New York.
