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Getty buys Pontormo painting setting old master record
The J Paul Getty Museum paid 35.2 million for Pontormo Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici 1537 38 at a Christies New York sale setting a world old master sale record. The work, long in private hands, will be on view at the Getty after restoration and loans to prior museums.
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