Yesterday this painting was sold to Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian for $170m. Think about that for a moment. One hundred and seventy million dollars. Extraordinary. Christie’s chose the right month in which to sell it, with the Sun in Scorpio, since the subject of this picture is passion. Sex in the midst of death: this is Scorpio’s realm. Jeanne Hébuterne, Amedeo Modigliani’s live-in lover, the mother of his child, and his muse, had Scorpio rising. On her descendant, the angle of partnership, Venus and Mercury conjoin across fiery Aries and sensual Taurus. That Venus (in detriment!) is in the very final degree of Aries, so it has […]
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