Record paintings of Claude Monet at Christie's
Masterpiece of French impressionist Claude Monet «Pond water lilies» purchased at auction Christie's unknown buyer for a record sum of 41 million pounds sterling (80,451 million dollars), the Broadcaster the BBC. The film was written by the artist in 1919 and is part of a series of four works on this topic.
«After the exciting battle in the bidding among several clients in the room and call the picture eventually was sold to anonymous collector for 41 million pounds. Thus was set a price record for works by this artist at auction », - told reporters the Director of the Firm of Christie's Impressionist paintings Olivier Camus.
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