A statue of the American artist Jeff Koons was sold Wednesday for $ 91.1 million at an auction in New York State, breaking the record price for a work by a living artist.
Christie´s estimated the price of selling a Rabbit statue, made by Kunz in 1986 - a stainless steel model for a 104-centimeter rabbit - between $ 50 million and $ 70 million.
According to The New York Times, the art dealer, Menuchin, the father of US Treasury Secretary Stephen Menuchin, bought the statue.
The sale price broke the record recorded by a British artist David Hockney last November, where his painting, "Portrait of an Artist" (Portrait Artist), sold for $ 90.3 million.
