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A Picasso held the previous record, $106.5 million.
Why does anyone pay so much for a work of art? On the CBS Evening News I heard an auction-house sales pitch that may help explain it:
You can remake your money, but you can't remake a painting.Interesting, though, that The Washington Post filed this story under Business, not Arts.
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