steel: The American artist's Rabbit, a stainless steel figure measuring around one-metre-tall, sold for more than US 91 million AUD 131.5 million last night at Christie's in New York, smashing auction estimates, according to Nine News Australia. The new record comes just six months after David Hockney's Portrait of an Artist Pool with Two Figures set a new benchmark for a living artist, when it sold for US 90.3 million AUD 130.5 million last November -- also at Christie's in New York. To improve your experience update it here News World Jeff Koons' 'Rabbit' sculpture smashes auction records after 131.5 million New York sale By CNN6 49pm May 16, 2019Facebook Tweet MailA playful rabbit sculpture by Jeff Koons has become the most expensive work by a living artist ever to sell at auction. A rabbit sculpture created by Jeff Koons has broken the record for the most expensive work by a living artist bought anywhere in the world. Christie's initially estimated that Koons' faceless Rabbit would sell for between US 50 and 70 million. AP/AAP The British painter's artwork had itself overtaken Koons' Balloon Dog Orange sculpture, the previous record-holder, which went for US 58.4 million AUS 84.2 million in 2013.
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