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L’Année Dernière à Capri Sets World Auction Record
Posted: February 22, 2011 11:54 Last Updated: | Gene OliverIt is not every day that a contemporary French artist sets a world auction record. This is however what happened at Christie’s last week when the painting L’Année Dernière à Capri from Martial Raysse was sold for more than four million pounds. Painted in 1962, L’Année Dernière à Capri or Last Year in Capri is representative of the female portraits Raysse was painting in the 60’s. Acidulated colors, women in bathing suits inspired from the fashion magazines, and the addition of the neon, contribute to a unique portraying of a consumerist society. Martial Raysse was born in the south of ...
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