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Visitors have been flocking to the Whitney Museum’s major retrospective of Julie Mehretu since March. The Ethiopian-born American artist’s large scale works that mix abstraction with social commentary have also captured an even greater online interest.
Case in point: last Thursday, art purchasing platform Artsy sold Mehretu’s massive Dissident Score painting for $6.5 million, the highest price ever reached on the 12-year-old online marketplace. The auction underscores the New York-based company’s continued growth through the pandemic, a period when online art sales doubled.
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