June 24, 2008

Record Monet

A Claude Monet painting, Le Bassin Aux Nympheas, has fetched a record £40.9m for the artist's work at auction.

The identity of the victorious bidder at Christie's, London, has not been made public. The painting had been expected to fetch £24m.

Painted in 1919 in Giverny in France it has been seen in public just once in the past 80 years.

Monet's 1873 Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil, which sold in May, had held the previous record of £20.9m.

From the BBC.

Posted by David on June 24, 2008 10:03 PM

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Whenever I hear records like this I remember several years ago reading that a Van Gogh painting had sold for a "disappointing" $13 million.
I doubt Van Gogh would have been disappointed.

Posted by: Christopher Waldrop on July 3, 2008 11:54 AM
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