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The Impressionist Claude Monet\u2019s<\/a> painting \u201cBassin aux nympheas, les rosiers<\/a>\u201d sold recently for a lofty $20.4 million. Wang Jianlin, Asia\u2019s richest man, bought the artwork at Sotheby\u2019s May 5 Impressionist<\/a> and Modern Art<\/a> sale. Bought by the collector\u2019s Dalian Wanda Group, the Chinese company has been buying Western artworks recently. In the past few years the Dalian Wanda Group has bought other notable works, such as Pablo Picasso\u2019s \u201cClaude et Paloma.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Monet<\/a>

Monet – Flowering Arches, Giverny, 1913<\/p><\/div>\n

With an auction total of $368.3 million, Asian collectors contributed to more than 30 percent of the sales. The auction was the second-highest sale for Sotheby\u2019s, taking next-to-best after the 2014 New York $422.1 million sale. Private collectors from Asia bought three out of the auction\u2019s top five lots. Each of the top sales was over $20 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cBassin aux nympheas, les rosiers\u201d wasn\u2019t the only Monet to sell at the evening\u2019s auction. The lots also included four other works by the artist; bringing in a total of $115.4 million. This includes a $54 million sale to an American collector. This makes the to-date total for Monet\u2019s in 2015 $199.2 million, already topping last year\u2019s sales total for the impressionist artist of $190.5 million.<\/p>\n

The auction high for the night was a $66.3 million sale for Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s<\/a> “L\u2019Allee des Alyscamps.” Selling to an Asian private collector, this work last sold in 2003 at auction for $11.8 million. The Sotheby\u2019s sale marks a high for a Van Gogh landscape<\/a>. Five bidders fought over the work. After a six-minute contest, the Van Gogh was finally bought by a bidder known as \u201cRobert Wu.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Van<\/a>

Van Gogh\u2019s \u2018L’Allee des Alyscamps\u2019 sells for $66m<\/p><\/div>\n

Other highlights of the night included works from The Goldwyn Collection. This included Pablo Picasso’s “Femme au chignon dans un fauteull,” which sold to Chinese film mogul Wang Zhongjun for $29.9 million. This work had previously been in The Goldwyn Collection (originally bought by Samuel Goldwyn Sr.) since 1956.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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