Metallica drummer sells painting at Christie's auction

Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich sold a painting by the late Jean-Michel Basquiat for $13.5 million (£9.12 million) at an auction in New York on November 12.

The painting, Untitled (Boxer) exceeded the pre-auction estimate of $12 million at Christie’s.

Basquiat was a New York neo-expressionist who died of a drug overdose in 1988. He was 27.


 
Posted by Simon at 04:15PM | November 13, 2008

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