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‘Reel’ big art buy

Russian billionaire Vladimir Doronin dropped a cool $3.3 million on an Andy Warhol painting Tuesday night at Christie’s post-war and contemporary art sale. Doronin picked up Warhol’s 1984 portrait of downtown artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, titled “Reel Basquiat” while sitting next to another avid art collector, Peter Brant (no word if Doronin bought it for his longtime girlfriend Naomi Campbell). Christie’s brought in a staggering $388 million during the sale, the biggest ever for a postwar/contemporary auction. Mark Rothko’s 1961 painting “Orange, Red, Yellow” was sold to an anonymous buyer for a record $87 million, surpassing the $35 million to $45million pre-auction estimate.