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The buyer's premium of the portrait took the final price to $90,312,500, the auction house announced. [Photo: AFP]
An iconic swimming pool picture painted by British legend David Hockney sold for $90.3 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new auction record for a living artist, Christie's said.
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