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Nu couché
Nu couché (also known in English as Red Nude or "Reclining Nude") is a 1917 oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani. It is one of his most widely reproduced and exhibited paintings. 
2015 sale.
The painting realized $170,405,000 at a Christie's New York sale on 9 November 2015, a record for a Modigliani painting and placing it high among the most expensive paintings ever sold. The purchaser was the Chinese businessman Liu Yiqian.. Liu is believed to have paid
November 9, 2015 the 1917 painting "Nu couché", sold at Christie's in New York for US$170.4 million. On May 14, 2018 the 1917 painting "Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)" sold at Sotheby's in New York for $157.2 million. This was the highest auction price in Sotheby's history.
Legacy Cinema.
Two films have been made about Modigliani: "Les Amants de Montparnasse" (1958), directed by Jacques Becker and starring Gérard Philipe as Modigliani; and "