LONDON: Salvador Dali's “Portrait de Paul Eluard” set a world record at Southeby's auction house in London Thursday when it was sold for more than 13 million pounds ($21.6 million). An anonymous bidder paid 13.4 million pounds for the 1929 masterpiece, the most ever for a Surrealist work at auction, breaking a record set in London only last night for a Dali piece at auction. The 1929 Surrealist piece portrays French poet Paul Eluard. However, Dali's piece was not the most expensive lot of the night with another anonymous bidder paying 23 million pounds ($37 million) for Francis Bacon's “Three Studies for a Portrait of Lucian Freud.”
