for $4.6 million at Phillips de Pury & Company in 2010, a record for the artist at auction at the time. In 2011, "Untitled" (Aparición), 1991, a stack of endlessly replenishable paper, each sheet printed with a black-and-white image of clouds, was sold well over the estimate for $1.6 million at Sotheby's, New York. One of the artist's plastic beads pieces, "Untitled" (Blood), was sold for $1.65 million at Christie's, New York, in 2000. In November 2015, at a record for the artist, González-Torres's "Untitled" (L.A.), 1991, a 50 lb. installation of green hard candies, sold for $7.7 million at Christie's, New York. Personal Life and Education In January 1970, González-Torres fled Cuba for Madrid, Spain when he was 12 with his older sister. Later that same year, he relocated to Puerto Rico. González-Torres attended the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan from 1975-1979. He moved to New York on academic scholarship to study photography at Pratt Institute in 1979, attending the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1981 and 1983. He received a BFA in photography from Pratt Institute in 1983 and obtained an MFA from the International Center of Photography and New York University in 1987. He was an adjunct Art Instructor at New York University, New York from 1987-1989 and in 1992. In 1990, Gonzalez-Torres lived in Los Angeles and taught at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Gonzalez-Torres was a member of Group Material from 1987-1994. In 1992 González-Torres was granted a DAAD fellowship to work in Berlin, and in 1993 a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He became an American citizen by applying for naturalization as a refugee and he chose to refer to himself as American. His name has appeared as Félix González, professionally he chose to style his name as Felix Gonzalez-Torres and also as Félix González-Torres in languages that include diacritics. The artist met his long-term partner Ross Laycock in 1983 in New York. González-Torres and Laycock were in a relationship from 1983 – 1991; for the majority of their relationship they lived in different cities except for a period when they lived together in Los Angeles in 1990. In January 1991, Laycock died of AIDS-related causes in Toronto. Félix González partner towards the end of his life was Rafael Vasquez and his obituary included that he was ‘survived by his companion, Rafael