A striking self-portrait created by artist Max Beckmann during World War Two after he fled Nazi Germany was sold for $20.7 million, a record price for a painting auctioned in Germany
that "Self-portrait in yellow-pink", painted in 1943, would attract bids of between 20 million and 30 million euros.
Beckmann, widely viewed as a major modern artist of the last century, painted it while in exile in Amsterdam. In the portrait, Beckmann departed from his usual dark colours and painted himself wearing a yellow fabric. His distant gaze, meditation-like pose and almost bald head are reminiscent of a Buddhist monk.
Eventually a private collection in Switzerland purchased the painting before entrusting it to Villa Grisebach.
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