A Mark Rothko painting sold for $46.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York, an evening in which several records were set including one for a work by German artist Sigmar Polke.

The Rothko work "Untitled, (Yellow and Blue)", measuring 2.42 meters by 1.86 meters (about eight feet by 6.1 feet) and completed in 1954, had been estimated at between $40 and $60 million.

It was one of the star pieces of this evening of auctions of contemporary works, including one by Roy Lichtenstein entitled "The Ring". Sotheby's had expected it would go for $50 million but in the end it sold for $41.69 million.

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Not the most expensive yet!

jidemoh:
Not the most expensive yet!

yes its not the most expensive

This yellow and blue painting

LilSmith55:
This yellow and blue painting

lol, that is d painting my brother and the tin surprise

Dem never tell us wetin dem pay for....must be drug related.

If na who abeg who go buy my shit for just $1000 it's not expensive at all

Where's the painting na?

Its called Money Laundering