'BEA ARTHUR NAKED' PORTRAIT SELLS FOR $1.9 MILLION
NEW YORK, May 16 (UPI) -- A painting depicting late actress Bea Arthur nude from the waist up sold for nearly $2 million at a New York auction.
Christie's auction house said the John Currin 1991 painting, "Bea Arthur Naked" -- which depicts the "Golden Girls" and "Maude" actress topless as an elderly woman -- was purchased by an anonymous bidder over the phone for $1.9 million Wednesday, the New York Post reported Thursday.
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