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Most expensive nude in history


Christie's, November 9, 2015: the painting "Reclining Nude²" by Amedeo Modigliani, was sold for a record $170.405 million.

Since 2010, Modigliani's most expensive painting was "Nude Sitting on a Couch," sold for $68.96M by Sotheby's.

The first buyer of these two paintings was the Parisian collector and art dealer Leopold Zboroswki.

This painting is one of several nudes that caused a scandal at Modigliani's first and only exhibition at Bertha Weill's gallery in Paris in 1917. Zborowski decided to display several nudes in the gallery's window and the window was immediately stormed by passersby. Unfortunately, a police station was across the street and the curator ordered to "remove all these horrors immediately."

The work was part of the collection of Gianni Mattioli, auctioned by his daughter, Laura Mattioli Rossi and purchased by the Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian.

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