Amedeo Modigliani’s famous drug-induced erotic masterpiece “Nu couché” just sold for $170.4 million, making it the second most expensive painting ever sold after Picasso’s “Women of Algiers.” The painting has been called “a hymn to lust,” with a nude, black-eyed seductress lying back on a red bed, offering herself up to the viewer. Painted in 1917-18, the artist was a penniless, drug-addled bohemian, who likely wouldn’t believe the price his high-art erotica fetched nearly a century later.
The artwork proves once again that sex really does sell. It’s even more graphic than Picasso’s “Women of Algiers” with their multiple cubist breasts and asses scattered around the canvas. “Nu couché” is a sensual masterpiece, mixing modernist elements with erotic thrills and seduction. It was painted during WWI, during an absinthe-haze, in which Modigliani takes as his subject his lover in all her seductive majesty—escaping the brutality of the war in her black, lusty eyes.
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