A Lucian Freud portrait of Andrew Parker Bowles - the ex-husband of Prince Charles' wife Camilla - sold for $34.9 million at Christie's on Tuesday as contemporary works by artists from Andy Warhol to Louise Bourgeois drew strong prices and spirited bidding.
While Warhol's "Four Marilyns," depicting screen siren Marilyn Monroe, drew the evening's top price, it was upstaged by "The Brigadier," a large-scale 2003-04 portrait of Parker Bowles, sat casually dressed in military regalia.
Camilla, now the Duchess of Cornwall, and Parker Bowles divorced in 1995.
Several bidders competed for the painting via telephone . . .
