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Amedeo Modigliani painting auction

Sex sells: why Modigliani’s 98-year-old hymn to lust is worth $170m

December 25, 2019November 11, 2015 by Editorial Team

Painted through an absinthe haze as the first world war raged, Amedeo Modigliani’s Nu couché mixes modernist thrills with age-old hedonism. No wonder it still seduces

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