THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MrAngryFace on June 25, 2008, 11:03:59 AM
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/24/monet-painting-sells-for_n_109050.html
LONDON — A water lily painting by Claude Monet sold for more than $80 million Tuesday, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist artist, Christie's said.
"Le bassin aux nympheas," or "Water Lily Pond," which sold for $80,451,178, was part of a four-work collection of water lily paintings that Monet put up for sale during his lifetime.
The four large-scale paintings of Monet's water lily garden were signed and dated by the artist in 1919. One of the other paintings is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, while another was sold at auction in 1992 for $12.1 million and is in a private collection. The final painting in the series was cut into two before World War II.
"After a thrilling bidding battle between a number of clients in the room and on the telephones, the painting eventually sold to an anonymous collector for 41 million (British pounds), setting a new world record price for the artist at auction," said Olivier Camu, Christie's director of impressionist art.
The previous record for a Monet work was set in May when "Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil" sold for $41.4 million.
The painting sold Tuesday was purchased in a 1971 New York auction for $320,000. It has not been publicly exhibited since.
That's a lot of monet!
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That's a lot of monet!
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I made the post just for that horrible joke.
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as a side note - monet's work sucks if you gotta look at it ;)
Actually - it doesnt 'suck' its more just boring.
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That joke was right on the monet.
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as a side note - monet's work sucks if you gotta look at it ;)
Actually - it doesnt 'suck' its more just boring.
Yeah, kinda like your posts. The difference being no one would pay 80 million to hear what you have to say.
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^^ :rofl
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/24/monet-painting-sells-for_n_109050.html
LONDON — A water lily painting by Claude Monet sold for more than $80 million Tuesday, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist artist, Christie's said.
"Le bassin aux nympheas," or "Water Lily Pond," which sold for $80,451,178, was part of a four-work collection of water lily paintings that Monet put up for sale during his lifetime.
The four large-scale paintings of Monet's water lily garden were signed and dated by the artist in 1919. One of the other paintings is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, while another was sold at auction in 1992 for $12.1 million and is in a private collection. The final painting in the series was cut into two before World War II.
"After a thrilling bidding battle between a number of clients in the room and on the telephones, the painting eventually sold to an anonymous collector for 41 million (British pounds), setting a new world record price for the artist at auction," said Olivier Camu, Christie's director of impressionist art.
The previous record for a Monet work was set in May when "Le Pont du chemin de fer a Argenteuil" sold for $41.4 million.
The painting sold Tuesday was purchased in a 1971 New York auction for $320,000. It has not been publicly exhibited since.
That's a lot of monet!
i was going to make a bid, but i was too baroque
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yuk yuk
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yuk yuk
You're still a dirty N word. Let's find out if we got dat jungle fever though. :interracial
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i dont get it
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i dont get it
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Just let the music take you simpleton.
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Thats alot of van Gogh