A century after Claude Monet ’s death, and after a banner year of publicity for impressionism, two sales in Paris confirmed the genre’s place as a favourite of big-spending collectors and the master artist as its most valued son.
The star of the show was a large, late Monet painting of flowers in his Giverny water garden that sold for €50 million (about $79 million) at Sotheby’s in Paris last Thursday.
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