Second Most Expensive Painting By A Living Artist Sold At Auction

An artwork created from the world’s largest canvas painting has sold for 62 million U.S. dollars in Dubai, the second most expensive painting sold at auction by a living artist.

Titled “The Journey of Humanity” the work by a British artist holds the Guinness World Record for being the largest art canvas with a size of 1-thousand-980-square meters almost six tennis courts combined.

The artist spent 20 hours a day filling the canvas for almost seven months straight.

“The aim was always to change the lives of children around the world and try to reconnect humanity for a better more empathetic, more loving, more united tomorrow. I didn’t dream this would happen, it’s happened.”

The huge painting was cut into 70 pieces for sale, and were all bought by a French cryptocurrency businessman.

All the money will go to charity for children in 140 countries.

Some 1, 065 paintbrushes and 63-hundred liters of paint were used to create the work.