Record sale for Monet masterpiece
A Claude Monet painting has fetched a record £40.9m ($80.5) for the artist’s work at an auction in London.
Le Bassin Aux Nympheas had been expected to fetch £24m ($47.2m) at Christie’s. The identity of the bidder has not been made public.
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 ($41.1m).
Experts say the art market remains in a “robust” position.
BBC arts correspondent David Sillito said that buyers from (more…)
