Lion sculpture gets record price, $57 mil at auction
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The 8.3cm (3.25in) tall Guennol Lioness is thought to have been carved 5,000 years ago in what is now Iraq and Iran.
The lion, whose new owner has not been identified, had been on loan to the Brooklyn Museum of Art for 59 years.
The previous record for a sculpture was set last month when Pablo Picasso's Tete de Femme was sold for $29m.
A 2,000-year-old Roman bronze sold for $28m in June, the previous record price for an antiquity sold at auction.
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PatriciaMarie
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The sculpture is fantastic.
- 3 years ago
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PatriciaMarie
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LTrain5g
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Hopefully someone who will do something productive with that money is now in possesion of it. Thats a lot of dough.
- 4 years ago
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LTrain5g
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hollyg
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I agree with you, mshen. I like the sculpture as well and saw the lioness just a few moments after looking at it.
- 4 years ago
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hollyg
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mshen
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I think it's kind of a cool sculpture, actually. Took me a moment to find the lioness, but now I see she's turning her head to the left and kind of linking her paws in a pectoral-flexing bodybuilding pose.
It's also interesting b/c the high auction prices I hear about these days are usually paid for modernist paintings, not for antique art.
- 4 years ago
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mshen
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aschneider
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Maybe while the troops are in Iraq we can have them looking for little statues in the houses they raid, and in the countryside so we can sell them to pay off our massive defense spending deficit.
Yay! Creative problem solving.
- 4 years ago
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aschneider
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Swiyyah
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Where's my cut?
- 4 years ago
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Swiyyah
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mattbrawn
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£28 Million!!! Why would you spend that much on a sculpture that doesn't really look like a lion? I've included a picture of a lioness so you can make up your own mind.
- 4 years ago
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mattbrawn
