Brad Pitt clearly isn’t feeling the effects of the global economic downturn — he’s just dropped almost $1 million on a painting.
The actor — who raises six children with partner Angelina Jolie — on Tuesday attended the Art Basel, an international art show for modern and contemporary works in Basel, Switzerland, and spent a whopping $956,000 on a Neo Rauch oil painting, entitled Etappe. The 9-foot-wide painting, done in 1998, shows a swirling view of a driver behind a red racecar, with workers nearby carrying hoses.
Pitt eyed the painting for several minutes while rubbing his goatee and fidgeting with his tweed hat. He initially walked away. “He’s on the fence. Nothing wrong with that, I guess,” New York dealer David Zwirner told the Wall Street Journal.
But within minutes, says Zwirner, Pitt returned with Los Angeles collectors Eli and Edythe Broad and made the big purchase.
Last year, the 45-year-old star bought a white marble table by a Dutch designer and an aluminum rug by a Colombian designer at the same show.
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