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Buying in Bulk at Sotheby’s

November 3, 2011 by Marion Maneker

The Master, Judd Tully, spotted a very big buyer of works at Sotheby’s Evening sale last night. Paddle 173 belonged to a couple who spent $22m on:

  • Claude Monet “Antibes, Le Fort” from 1888, one of seven works deaccessioned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to benefit the collection, for $9,266,500 (est. $5-7 million),
  • another MFA Boston entry, Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Portrait en buste de jeune fille” from circa 1893, for $1,874,500 (est. $1.8-2.5 million),
  • Edvard Munch’s seaside “Morgen på Promenade des Anglais” (“Morning on the Promendade des Anglais”) from 1891 for $1,986,500 (est. $2-3 million),
  • Wassily Kandinsky’s color-charged 1908 Expressionist composition “Weisser Klang (White Sound)” for $8,930,500 (est. $7-10 million).

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