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A painting by Gerhard Richter owned by guitarist Eric Clapton is sold for £21.3m [$34.2m, 26.4m euros], a record for the work of a living artist, at Sotheby's Auction House, London, UK. An anonymous bidder bought the oil painting on canvas, Abstraktes Bild (809-4), for more than ten times the price Clapton paid eleven years earlier.
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