Commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in 1913 as an Easter gift for his mother, the piece is adorned with some 4,500 diamonds.
At Sotheby’s new headquarters, the auction house also sold a $12.1 million solid-gold toilet
“Youth Posing as Eros” fetched 572,000 euros at a Bonhams and Art Expertise auction on Wednesday, the highest sum ever paid for a painting by the modernist artist and set designer