I’m selling a self-portrait of an artist for a fantastic price

A self-portrait by Max Beckmann sold for €23.2 million on Thursday, a record price for a painting sold at auction in Germany.
The incredible painting was painted by artist Beckmann of himself during WWII after he fled Nazi Germany.
Auction officials in Berlin had expected the ‘Autopainting in Yellow and Pink’, painted in 1943, to fetch between 20 and 30 million euros.
Beckmann, widely regarded as one of the last century’s most important modern artists, painted the painting while in exile in Amsterdam.
After the Nazis called his paintings “degenerate art,” Beckmann and his wife, Matilda, known as “Kwabe,” fled Germany in 1937. Beckmann waited years in Amsterdam for a US visa, working under unfavorable conditions.
In the painting, Beckmann departed from his usual dark colors and painted himself dressed in yellow. The auction house, which oversaw the painting’s sale, said the image, which shows him gazing into the distance with his eyes and his meditative pose with his bald head, makes him look like a Buddhist monk.