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In the Saleroom: Claude Monet's Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil

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A new world auction record was set for a rare and luminous Claude Monet masterpiece of high Impressionist style from 1873 when Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil sold for $41.48 million in New York. One of the greatest Impressionist pictures left in private hands, it contained all the trademark themes of Monet’s early work of the 1870s. (May 2008)

1 May 2008