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Painting from Haystacks series sets auction record for Monet
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| May 15, 2019
| Staff
Posted on 05/15/2019 3:32:35 AM PDT by C19fan
A Claude Monet painting from his celebrated "Meules" (Haystacks) series fetched $110.7 million in New York on Tuesday in an auction record for the French Impressionist master. The sale at Sotheby's -- the first time the work had come to auction since 1986 -- fetched one of the 10 highest prices ever seen at auction. The total, which includes fees and the commission, was more than 44 times the previous record for the work.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: claudemonet; haystacks; impressionism; meules; painting
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posted on
05/15/2019 3:32:35 AM PDT
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C19fan
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/15/2019 3:35:45 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Facts are racist.)
To: C19fan
The anonymous collector who brought the painting to be auctioned had purchased it in 1986 at Christie’s for just $2.5 million.
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I bet it wasn’t considered such a small price at the time.
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posted on
05/15/2019 3:38:55 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Facts are racist.)
To: C19fan; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
I have a Monet, a Manet and a Tippy Tippy Day Day.
To: C19fan
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posted on
05/15/2019 3:47:08 AM PDT
by
ETL
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To: All
Other paintings by Monet...
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05/15/2019 3:53:20 AM PDT
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ETL
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posted on
05/15/2019 4:02:31 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: C19fan
One of the highlights of the Chicago Institute of Art is the room where they have 6 or 8 of these haystack paintings, each painted with a different quality of light. They really are extraordinary.
I can’t see the value in having just one of them, though. The beauty comes in comparing one to another, and seeing the artist’s rendition of the different conditions on the different paintings.
If these paintings are worth that much, that is one expensive room in Chicago! Well worth the visit.
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posted on
05/15/2019 5:02:48 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
(ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
To: Haiku Guy
"One of the highlights of the Chicago Institute of Art is the room where they have 6 or 8 of these haystack paintings..."
Years ago went to see a great Monet showing at the Met Museum of Art (NYC) and they had three or four of them side-by-side.
Van Gogh challenges me, but Monet relaxes me. Mmmmmm
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posted on
05/15/2019 5:09:45 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
To: Haiku Guy
To each his own.
I like to look at them but have a hard time seeing their worth much money.
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posted on
05/15/2019 5:10:09 AM PDT
by
caver
To: Haiku Guy
The Mellon Exhibit is making a tour of the US with many impressionistic paintings by Van Gogh, Degas, Monet, Manet, and Pissaro to just name a few. It just left Nashville and is going to be setting up in OKC this month. Extraordinary is the term to describe the paintings for sure.
To: Psalm 73
My wife and I are watching the Van Gogh movie tonight with Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh...
Good gosh, he sure looks like him in the previews!
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posted on
05/15/2019 5:36:30 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
To: ETL
Doesn’t look like haystacks. Never was a fan of his.
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posted on
05/15/2019 5:50:37 AM PDT
by
bgill
(when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
To: C19fan
He was featured in an exhibit in Vegas i saw of all places
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posted on
05/15/2019 5:59:56 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
To: rlmorel
"...watching the Van Gogh movie..."
How such a tortured soul could produce a massive quantity of beauty is beyond comprehension.
We are much the better for it, though.
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posted on
05/15/2019 6:46:50 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
To: Psalm 73
Some might say that it takes a tortured soul like that to produce what he did...:)
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posted on
05/15/2019 7:34:59 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Leftists: Can't control their emotions. Can't control their actions. Deny them control of anything.)
To: ETL
Seems like Monet could of used a visit to a good optician.
To: ETL
I never have been a big Monet fan, or a fan of impressionism in general. I understand the style and all, but it’s just not something that appeals to me. To each his own though. It’s quite apparent that some like it.
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posted on
05/15/2019 8:28:52 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
To: bgill
Doesn't look like haystacks.
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Agreed. Maybe he should have tried painting rocks.
To: bgill
That was before the invention of the round hay baler.
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posted on
05/15/2019 11:17:58 AM PDT
by
piasa
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