In New York, a storm of record auctions, including a Monet sold for $74 million Sales at Christie's and its competitor Sotheby's exceeded a billion dollars in less than a week. The masterpiece of the French impressionist painter Claude Monet, Le Bassin aux nymphéas, was sold at auction for $74 million on Thursday in New York, during an exceptional evening at Christie's. Sotheby's, which sold a Picasso ( Woman with a Watch , 1932) on Wednesday evening for $139 million , the second most expensive work for the Spanish master who died in 1973, is already at more than $400 million in sales. up for auction this week. Christie's is at 748 million, including 640 million on Thursday evening. Since 2017, this has been a record sum accumulated in a single evening of sales of works of art belonging to different collectors, Christie's welcomed in a press release. The highlight of the evening, Le Bassin aux nymphéas (1917-1919), by Claude Monet, estimated at 65 million dollars, went for 74 million. Three paintings by Paul Cézanne, including Fruits and a Ginger Pot , sold for nearly $39 million, according to Christie's. Other individual records were broken Thursday evening: the work, by the 20th century American expressionist painter Richard Diebenkorn, Recollections of a Visit to Leningrad was sold for 46 million dollars, and Untitled , by his compatriot Joan Mitchell, 29 million.
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