Munch's 'Girls on the 橋（渡しをする）' fetches $54.5 mn at auction
Edvard Munch's "Girls on the 橋（渡しをする）" sold for $54.5 million in New York on Monday, the second-highest auction price paid for a work by the Norwegian painter, Sotheby's said.
The 1902 絵 描写するing women in colorful dresses that contrast with a dark, anguished landscape, fetched a price solidly higher than the auction house's 見積（る） of above $50 million.
The 絵 has broken 記録，記録的な／記録するs every time it has gone under the 大打撃を与える. It went for $30.8 million in 2008, compared with $7.7 million in 1997.
Edvard Munch's 'Pikene p? broen (Girls on the 橋（渡しをする）)', seen on 陳列する，発揮する during the マスコミ preview for Sotheby's New York auctions, on November 4, 2016 ?Timothy A. Clary (AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
The Norwegian artist's most famous work, "The 叫び声をあげる," was his most expensive work of art to sell at auction, at $119.9 million in 2012.
"Girls" is one of the 星／主役にする 絵s at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale. The autumn art auctions 組織するd by Sotheby's and 競争相手 Christie's are 始める，決める to continue through the week.
At Sotheby's, the スポットライト returns a long-running 一連の Pablo Picasso 絵s 肩書を与えるd "Painter and his model." This particular 1963 絵 by the Spanish artist sold Monday for $12.9 million.
It had been 概算の between $12 million and $18 million.
This first auction of the week, which drew more than 600 collectors or 買い手s from around the world by phone or in person, notched up about $151.9 million in sales in 絵s and sculptures.
の中で the other 作品 to go on the auction 封鎖する this week is Claude Monet's "Meul," part of a 一連の haystacks the French artist painted during the winter of 1890-1891. Christie's has 概算の it will sell at $45 million.
Another 著名な Christie's 申し込む／申し出 will be Willem de Kooning's 課すing "Untitled XXV" -- 6.5 by 7 feet (2 by 2.2 メーターs) -- featuring the Dutch-American's typically vigorous, multicolored 小衝突 一打／打撃s. Christie's 見積（る）s a sale at $40 million.
