Monet painting sold at auction for $35 million
Claude Monet's painting 'Haystacks at Giverny' (1893) sold "in an eight-minute bidding war" for $34.8 million. This was reported by a spokesman for the auction house Sotheby's
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A Monet painting sold at auction for $35 million
The painting 'Haystacks at Giverny' by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet has been sold at auction in New York for nearly $35 million, Sotheby's announced.
After the global art market declined in 2023, the major auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's launched their spring sales in the American capital of arts and finance on Monday, in a rather optimistic mood after good results in London and Paris. Sotheby's, which is owned by French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi, announced on Wednesday evening the sale online, by telephone and in its Manhattan office of some fifty modern art paintings for $235 million.
One of the most expensive paintings, 'Sheaf at Giverny' (1893) by Claude Monet, sold "in an eight-minute bidding war" for $34.8 million, a Sotheby's spokesman said.
A work by Anglo-Mexican Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) broke the artist's auction record: 'Les Distractions de Dagobert' sold for $28.5 million to a buyer 'in the room after a ten-minute battle'.
