A painting of the notorious Australian outlaw Ned Kelly has become the country’s most expensive work of art ever bought at auction.
The work by Australian artist Sidney Nolan went for $4.8m (A$5.4m; £3.2m), smashing previous records. The buyer has not been named.
First Class Marksman shows the 19th Century bandit walking through the Australian bush with rifle raised.
He is wearing his trademark body armour with iron helmet and narrow eye slit.
In a country that likes to pride itself on its anti-authoritarianism, it is perhaps fitting that its most expensive piece of artwork should feature its most celebrated anti-hero, Ned Kelly - a rogue who regularly defied the colonial authorities.
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