NEW YORK (Reuters) - A nude portrait by Amedeo Modigliani sold for $157.2 million at Sotheby's on Monday, achieving the 4th-highest price for any work of art at auction but failing to set a new record ...

A Chinese collector snapped up a sensuous Modigliani nude for $170.4 million in New York, setting a new world record price at auction for the Italian artist in a bumper Christie's sale. The evening ...

When it was first shown in 1917, Modigliani's Nu couche (sur le cote gauche) was considered so offensive that police shut the exhibition down. Just over a century later, the painting of the defiant ...

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This 1917 oil painting, "Nu couche (sur le cote gauche)" by Amedeo Modigliani, was auctioned at Sotheby's in New York for more than $157 million, in their Impressionist & Modern Art evening sale ...

A 1917 painting by Amedeo Modigliani of a reclining nude woman that was once considered obscene in Paris sold for over $157 million at an auction in Manhattan on Monday. Nu couché (sur le côté gauche) ...

A masterpiece that was once censored on the grounds of obscenity has now set a new auction record. Sotheby’s has announced that “Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)” (1917) by the Italian artist Amedeo ...

The painting, one of only five nudes ever auctioned, gave Sotheby’s its highest price yet but failed to set a new record for the artist Nu couché (sur le côté gauche), a reclining nude by the ...