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By Katya Kazakina and Allison McCartney Bloomberg News Thursday, May 16, 2019
It was another heady auction night in New York.
Minutes after Robert Rauschenberg's painting Buffalo II fetched $88.8 million at Christie's -- almost five times the late artist's previous auction record -- Jeff Koons's sculpture of an inflatable silver bunny topped that at $91.1 million, the most ever paid for a work by a living artist at auction.
The Koons led Christie's postwar and contemporary art sale today, which totalled $539 million, up 36 percent from a year ago. The evening saw seven new artist records, with a $32.1 million spider sculpture by Louise Bourgeois joining Koons and Rauschenberg.
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