Record sale for Monet masterpiece

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by coNNaiSSeur June 25, 2008 - 8:22
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'Le Bassin Aux Nympheas' fragment

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.

Experts say the art market remains in a "robust" position.

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Yakovlev Fails to Sell at Christie's Russian Art Sale

by woody_b April 21, 2008 - 8:50
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"The Forest Clearing" by I. Shishkin

A painting by the Russian modernist Alexander Yakovlev depicting men watching a performance from a theater box in China failed to sell on April 18 at Christie's International in New York.
"Loge de Theatre a Pekin" (1918) had an estimate of $1.8 million to $2.5 million.

Yakovlev painted the 42-by-46-inch tempera on canvas while visiting the Chinese capital on a trip that also included Mongolia and Japan. The painting is one of a few known surviving works from his series dedicated to Chinese theater.

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