Brad Pitt buys $1m painting

Brad Pitt splashes the cash with $1m purchase

Brad-Pitt-and Angelina Jolie, The Oscars 2009, Celebrity News
Brad-Pitt-and Angelina Jolie, The Oscars 2009, Celebrity News
Natalia Lubomirski
By Natalia Lubomirski
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Brad Pitt splashes the cash with $1m purchase

Actor Brad Pitt caused a sensation on Tuesday when he sneaked into the Art Basel fair in Switzerland and picked up a painting worth $1million.

The international art show, which runs for five days, features the highest quality contemporary artworks by over 2500 artists.

The A-lister sent cameras into a frenzy when he pitched up at the event, attracting a throng of admirers.

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The Benjamin Button star, who attempted to go incognito in aviator shades and a beige cap, zipped round the gallery, before lingering in front of a David Zwirner painting.

The 1998 painting, entitled Etappe, illustrates a vibrant scene of men in racing cars with workers nearby spraying candy-coloured hoses – and also comes with a $1million sale price.

However Mr. Pitt wasn’t fazed. After eyeing up the nine-foot-wide work the actor conferred with major Los Angeles collectors Eli and Edythe Broad.

According to Broad, Pitt took some persuading, but finally agreed to fork out the hefty sum.

Pitt may have scored himself a bargain – in Hollywood terms – as the painting was reduced from its original asking price of $1,799,000.

Still, with the eye-watering price tag, we hope Angelina likes it!

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Natalia Lubomirski
Natalia Lubomirski
Natalia is a health journalist with 14 years experience in the publishing industry. She has worked for a number of well known magazines and websites including Marie Claire, Woman&Home, Top Sante, Boots and The Telegraph.  She likes to think she practices what she preaches when it comes to health and fitness. Her athletic prowess began early. A keen fencer for 13 years, she wielded an epée for Olympic Team GB during her teenage years. She likes to think she made sword-fighting cool before Game of Thrones came along! While working on her sporting performance with the team, she also participated in a lot of nutrition and psychology training, When it comes to time off, you’ll most likely find her up a mountain somewhere. It seems holidays have become a time for climbing several thousand feet, rather than chilling out. She’s now hiked eight of the major mountain ranges across four continents – including the Appalachians, the Smokies, the Sierra Nevadas (she spent her honeymoon hiking to the top of Half Dome), as well as hitting the summits of Snowdon, Pen-Y-Fan (Brecon Beacons), Table Mountain in South Africa, the Blue Mountains in Australia and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. She’s also passionate about all things health, particularly vaccinations, and will happily jump on her soap box at any given opportunity to talk about their benefits to anyone who will listen!
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