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25
Jun
Claude Monet’s Le Bassin Aux Nympheas fetched at £40.92 million Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art auction last night. The painting of waterlillies floating on water sold for more than double its pre sale estimate and the double the prior record for a Monet.
According to The Wall Street Journal, 15 of the 81 pieces up [...]
7
May
The 1873 oil on canvass by Claude Monet’s 1873 oil painting, Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil, sold Tuesday at a New York Christie’s auction for over £21 million. The price beat last year’s record price for a Monet by more than 10 percent. The impressionist’s painting features a railway bridge [...]
7
Mar
ON A QUIET SUNDAY AFTERNOON last month, armed men broke into the Emil George Bührle Museum in Zurich and forced security staff to the floor at gunpoint. A few minutes later, they had made off with paintings by Cezanne, Monet, Degas and Van Gogh with a combined value of £90 million…
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24
Feb
A masterpiece by Claude Monet, said to be one of the greatest Impressionist pictures left in private hands, is expected to break the world auction record for the artist at a sale this spring.
Such is the significance of Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, dated 1873, that it is likely to spark feverish [...]
12
Feb
Four impressionist works stolen in daylight heist Audacious raid the second in Switzerland in a week
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The Boy in the Red Vest by the French master Paul Cézanne was the museum’s most valuable painting. The others - Van Gogh’s Blossoming Chestnut Branches, Claude Monet’s Poppies near Vetheuil and Edgar Degas’s family portrait, the Count Lepic [...]
28
Jan
A fake Monet painting, which featured on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow, has been sold at auction for £15,000.
Tom Keating’s View of Santa Maria della Salute and Grande Canal, Venice, was sold to a London buyer when it went under the hammer in Northamptonshire….
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