A 3-foot-tall silver bunny just set an art world record. Rabbit, by the playful and controversial artist Jeff Koons, sold for more than $91 million at Christie’s Auction House — the most for work by a living artist at auction.
Robert Mnuchin, an art dealer and the father of the Treasury secretary, had the winning bid on behalf of a client.
The stainless steel sculpture is a faceless space bunny, a balloon that’s not a balloon. The piece was one of 11 works that were offered from the collection of magazine publisher S.I. Newhouse, the longtime chairman of Condé Nast who died in 2017.
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