Chavez’s oil painting drew in prison was auctioned with high price
China Daily website worldwide online news: According to the report of the American media on September 17th that a Venezuelan President Chavez’s oil painting is auctioned last week for 255,000 US dollars, which was aim to raise fund for his political party.
The name of this painting is “The Yare Moon”, and was created by Chavez when he was serving a prison sentence in Yare Prison after his coup failure in 1992. It described a full moon that seen from jail’s iron window, and there were some red characters at the bottom of the iron window: “long long life, little strokes fell great oaks!”
Chavez’s ally and Congress assemblywoman Bravo told the journalist on 15th that this oil painting’s quotation was 14,000 US dollars, and there were probably 40 people participated in the competitive bidding, and finally it was bought by 3 Venezuelan merchants. This painting’s price was higher than that of same of the Venezuelan top artists’ works. Bravo said that her colleagues were shocked by this price, but they all thought that this oil painting was a symbol of the Venezuelan history.
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