Artdaily exclusive.-Manuel de la Giraudier and Carmela de Guzmán, art dealers, negotiated the trasaction of the sale of a painting by Amedeo Modigliani setting a new record for this great artist: $35 million dollars. This sale took place in Europe in a veil of mistery and secrecy surrounds this deal; we only know that the owners of Giraudier & Guzmán made it happen and that this is an oil painting by Amedeo Modigliani from the series of nudes of the Nu Allongé series dated 1917 and that a private European institution acquired the work. The work came from the Leopold Zborowski Collection then went to a private collection. The work has been exhibited at the Palais des Beaux Arts and Basel Kunsthalle.

The previous Modigliani record was $31.4 sold by Sotheby's New York on November 4, 2004. Amedeo Modigliani's sublime painting of his wife, Jeanne Hébuterne (Devant une Porte), which brought $31,368,000. Amedeo Modigliani's Jeanne Hébuterne (Devant une Porte), consigned by the Estate of Wendell Cherry, was another outstanding highlight of the evening, selling for $31,368,000, also a record for the artist at auction. As many as five bidders fought for the elegant three-quarter length portrait which Charles Moffett, Co-Chairman of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art Department Worldwide, has referred to as "without question, one of the best works Modigliani ever produced." Also from the Estate of Wendell Cherry was Chaïm Soutine's Le Chasseur de Chez Maxim's which sparked frenzied bidding, driving the final price to $6,728,000, a record for the artist at auction, and tripling the previous record. This quintessential image by Soutine, depicting one of his favorite subjects, a uniformed employee from one of the most famous restaurants in Paris, had been estimated to sell for $2.5/3.5 million.

Manuel de la Giraudier stated: "On this day we reaffirm that unpublished works are always more valuable, if they are exceptional works."