Cecily Brown: For much of the 90's, there was talk of painting's demise.

Then along came Cecily Brown to resurrect the age-old pleasures of writhing flesh (and paint).

But paintings by Rosson Crow and Cecily Brown become decorative filler.

"It's mad," said Cecily Brown, the painter.

He greets Cecily Brown, and immediately asks her detailed questions about her complicated monoprint method.

He later had another daughter, Cecily Brown, with the English novelist Shena Mackay.

Cecily Brown, born 1969 in London, is a British painter.

Another record price - $968,000 - was paid for "High Society," an abstract painting by Cecily Brown from 1997-98 estimated at $200,000 to $300,000.

And yet their art is obscured - especially odd in the cases of Sue Williams and Cecily Brown, whose paintings are abstract.

A work by Cecily Brown, another artist represented by Miro, also sold for a surprisingly high price at auction in 2000.