Picasso nude fetches over $67M, van Gogh brings in $54M at Day 2 of NYC’s fall auctions

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FILE - This photo provided by Sotheby\'s in September 2015 shows Vincent van Gogh\'s “Landscape Under a Stormy Sky,” painted in 1889, a year before his death. The landscape depicting a field in Arles in the south of France will lead the auction house’s impressionist and modern art sale in New York in the fall of 2015. It is estimated to bring as much as 0 million during auction at Sotheby’s on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015, a day after the auction house sold 77 million worth art from the estate of its late former owner. (Sotheby\'s via AP, File)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – A nude portrait by Pablo Picasso has fetched over $67 million at an auction in New York.

“The Nightclub Singer” was purchased Thursday night at Sotheby’s sale of impressionist and modern artworks. It had been expected to sell in excess of $60 million.

Another highlight Thursday was Vincent van Gogh’s “Landscape Under a Stormy Sky. It sold for over $54 million, the low end of its pre-sale estimate of $50 million to $70 million.

The city’s fall art auction season got underway Wednesday with Sotheby’s auctioning $377 million worth of art from the estate of its late former owner. Seventy-seven works from the A. Alfred Taubman collection were sold.

The top bid Wednesday night went for Amedeo Modigliani’s “Paulette Jourdain,” which sold for $42.8 million, well above its $25 million estimate.

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