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US singer Lionel Richie, who is touring Australia, has revealed an appreciation for Australian art by snapping up a work by Sidney Nolan at a Sydney auction.
Richie paid US$10,000 ($13,000) for the untitled work by one of Australia's best-known artists.
The 1989 Nolan will hang in the hallway of Richie's new Beverly Hills home, auction sources said.
The artwork is one of Nolan's spray-painted works, a psychedelic abstract in crimson, yellows and green.
