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Claude Monet carried out the describe in 1890
A describe by Claude Monet has been bought for $110.7m (£85.7m), a recent world narrative for a work by the French artist.
Monet carried out the oil describe in 1890 as fragment of his Meules (Haystacks) series, depicting rural life approach his home within the Normandy explain.
The sale will likely be the first time an Impressionist describe offered for further than $100m.
It used to be final auctioned in 1986, when it fetched real $2.5m.
Till then it had been within the fingers of 1 family – who bought the part presently from the artist’s dealer – for nearly a century.
A Sotheby’s press liberate mentioned the describe is now the ninth-most costly work ever offered at public sale.
Its buyer reportedly beat 5 other bidders at the sale in Fresh York. Sotheby’s did no longer name the recent owner.
Monet’s Haystacks series had 25 art work, the bulk of which grasp in art work galleries across the world.
This is believed to be one of entirely four of his works to depart under the hammer this century.
Nymphéas en fleur used to be beforehand the most costly Monet describe, selling for $84.7m in Could per chance perhaps also 2018.
Record money for Monet at US auction
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