USA - Barbra Striesand Auction

(4 Mar 1994) Actress-singer-director Barbra Streisand has become six million U.S. dollars richer for trying to simplify her life. The item that brought the highest price was a 1932 Art Deco painting of Adam and Eve by the French artist Tamara de Lempicka, which sold for just under 2 million dollars - a record for the artist. A 1927 jade Cartier clock, made in a Shinto temple gate design, sold for 316,000 dollars. SHOWS: NEW YORK, USA 3/3 exterior of Christie's auction house adam and eve painting under bid auctioner bidders on phone auctioneer adam and eve pix clock bidder on phone auctioneer phone bidder auctioneer christie's board for lot 143 tiffany lamp ws audience bidder on phone christie's board lot 179 audience 1.22 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...