Casino Developer Steve Wynn Sells Painting for Record Amount
5 Nov 2003
LAS VEGAS – As reported by the Associated Press: ``Casino developer Steve Wynn sold one of the "season's sexiest" paintings for a record amount at a Christie's auction Tuesday night.
``Wynn sold "Nu couche" by Amedeo Modigliani for $26.8 million during the Impressionist and Modern art auction in New York City.
``…Modigliani 'ranks among the greatest painters of the female nude in the 20th century,' Christie's said. 'Those that he painted between 1916 and 1920, fewer than 30 in all, are the most celebrated pictures in the artist's oeuvre.'…"