Bidding for Henri's Armchair, a piece from Mr Whiteley's Lavender Bay series, started at $4.
5 million at Menzies Art Auctions in Sydney'sThe auction was over in a matter of minutes with three phone bidders and one absentee bidder moving at increments of $100,000, theThe painting went under the hammer for $5 million and with an auction house premium rounding the total price to $6.136 million, this sets a record for the Australian art market and for a Whiteley painting., which sold for $5.4 million and held the national record for 10 years.
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