The painting ‘Sheaf at Giverny’ by French impressionist giant Claude Monet has sold at auction in New York for almost $35 million, Sotheby’s has announced.
After the decline of the world art market 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 climate after the good results in London and Paris .
Sotheby’s, which belongs to the French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi, announced on Wednesday evening the sale online, by telephone and in its Manhattan office of around fifty modern art paintings for 235 million dollars. 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 spokeswoman said. And a work by the 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”.
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