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Maurizio Cattelan's solid gold toilet titled "America" sold for $12.1 million at Sotheby's inaugural auction in New York, marking it the second highest price for his work. The piece, made from 18-karat gold and weighing 101 kilograms, satirizes superwealth and attracted a buyer revealed as Ripley's Believe It or Not!, who plan to showcase it interactively at their museum. The auction also featured Gustav Klimt's record-breaking $236.4 million sale and strong sales for Edvard Munch and Frida Kahlo, signaling a recovery in the global art market.

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Frida Kahlo's 1940 surrealist self-portrait "El sueño (La cama)" sold for a record $55 million at Sotheby's auction, setting the highest price ever paid for a work by a female artist. This price surpassed Georgia...

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Maurizio Cattelan's solid gold toilet titled "America" sold for $12.1 million at Sotheby's inaugural auction in New York, marking it the second highest price for his work. The piece, made from 18-karat gold and weighing...

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