Sculptor’s Payday

Henry Moore’s 15-foot bronze sculpture, Three Piece Reclining Figure: Draped, sold at auction for $6.2 million this week, the highest price ever paid for a work by a British sculptor. “The previous best for a work by Moore, regarded as one of the UK’s top sculptors, was $4.1m , in 1999. Collectors also paid record prices for works by French painter Fernand Leger Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. Tuesday’s auction of impressionist and modern art [at Christie’s in New York] sold pieces worth a total of $117m.”