Last week, a Picasso painting called "The Women of Algiers (Version 0)"fetched $179.4 million minutes before a bronze statue by Alberto Giacometti called "Man Pointing" sold for $141.3 million.
The buyers were anonymous, though a recent New York Times article narrowed the potential Picasso buyers down to 50 suspects — some of whom made their fortunes in tech.
Tech titans have a taste for expensive art. We've rounded up some of the biggest purchases here.
Bill Gates set what was then an American art record when he bought Winslow Homer's "Lost on the Grand Banks" for $36 million in 1998. The painting hangs on a wall outside his home library.
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Inside his library is Childe Hassam's "Room of Flowers," a piece that's believed to be worth $20 million.
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He also owns a painting by George Bellows called "Polo Crowd." Gates bought the piece anonymously at a Sotheby's auction in 1999, paying a whopping $27.5 million to add it to his collection.
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