Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" is set to be sold at the Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale in New York on for an estimated price of $80 million. The current record was set by Jeff Koons in 2013, when his "Balloon Dog" sold for $58.4 million
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David Hockney painting poised to smash auction records
On Thursday, a well-known painting by British artist David Hockney is poised to smash the record for a work by a living artist sold at auction.

