Brancusi bird soars to $24.5m record
Bird in Space, right, an unrecorded marble version of one of Constantin Brancusi’s most celebrated and iconic subjects, was the toast of Christie’s $126.8m Impressionist and Modern art sale last week in New York.
The marble on a stone work, standing 4ft (1.2m) high overall, sold on May 4 for $24.5m (£13.6m). At …