Bronze sculpture of Artemis makes $28.6 million world auction
Published June 8th, 2007
A bronze sculpture of the Roman goddess Artemis fetched $28.6 million on Thursday at auction, a world-record auction price for a sculpture of any period, Sotheby’s said.
“Artemis and the Stag,” dating from the first century B.C. to first century A.D., was purchased by London art dealer Giuseppe Eskenazi on behalf of “a European private collector,” according to Sotheby’s spokeswoman Lauren Gioia.
The previous auction record for a sculpture was $27.4 million, for a marble version of Constantin Brancusi’s modernist “Bird in Space.” It was sold in 2005 at a Christie’s auction in New York.
Eskenazi was present to make the winning bid _ far exceeding Sotheby’s pre-auction high estimate of $7 million.
The sculpture was sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, to raise money for other art purchases.
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