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Nov 14 2007 12:00am EDT

Richard Prince Datapoint of the Day

October 16, London:

At Christie's, the heat was still on for the fashionable Canadian conceptual artist Richard Prince, whose painting Wayward Nurse, bought originally in 2005 from his New York gallery for $75,000, sold for £1 million ($2.1 million).

November 14, New York:

Richard Prince's drippy red ``Piney Woods Nurse'' (2002), from his series of masked nurses ripped from the pages of pulp fiction, sold for $6.1 million, almost triple the $2.2 million high estimate.

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