Boost for art world as Reynolds portrait of young Tahitian sells for record pounds 10m

The Independent - London | November 30, 2001| | Copyright

SIR JOSHUA Reynolds's Omai, an iconic portrait of a young man who grew up in Tahiti and was feted by 18th-century London society, was sold at Sotheby's yesterday for a record price of more than pounds 10m.

The work, which symbolises an age that saw unprecedented advances in the fields of travel, commerce, sciences and philosophy, depicts the young man in flowing robes.

The auction was the first such art sale since the terrorist attacks of 11 September, and the painting is the most expensive sold in London this year. Omai fetched pounds 10,343,500 - six and a half times more than what has ...

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