Le Bassin aux lilies Art Paintings, a series of four pieces by French impressionistic water lily has almost doubled the previous record price for a Monet, the £ 20,900,000 for 1873, the work of Le Pont du Chemin de Fer A Argenteuil, which sold in May. The painting of Monet, which was exposed in front of a packed auction house, sold a telephone bidder. The painting was signed in 1919 and was only in contrast with most of his later works which remained unfinished seen in his studio after hisThe death of the water lily series was completed in his life. It 'was divided into New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and another third is in a private collection. Before the auction, Olivier Camu, Director and Head of Christie's Impressionist and modern art, which he described as "the greatest paintings of Claude Monet's water lily will be offered at auction in Europe." It 'was the star lot of Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale, which includes works by Picasso, Matisse,Kandinsky, Renoir, Degas and Henry Moore. The sale was originally expected to fetch 90 million pounds, but – as has become familiar in the hall this summer – all can be easily exceeded. Talk at Christie's was by petrodollars from Russia and the Middle East, drives prices higher still. A world record was set sells for work of British sculptor Henry Moore's Draped Reclining Woman with her game for just under £ 4.3million. audience was even born in the last 80 years to MonetNovember …
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