Again....amazed by the price someone paid for a painting

A painting by a Lancashire-born artist has sold for over £22 million. Sotheby's said the sale of Leonora Carrington's Les Distractions de Dagobert in New York meant she had become the most valuable British-born female artist at auction. The surrealist painting was bought for $28.5m (£22.48m), which exceeded Carrington's previous record of $3.3m (£2.6m) set at the auction house in 2022. Carrington was born in Chorley on 6 April 1917 and later lived in Mexico, alongside female surrealists including Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo. The painting was bought by an Argentine businessman