Impressionist ‘jewel’ expected to break 18.5 million record

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 bidding from collectors worldwide...
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