The Economist identifies the buyer of this record-setting Monet from two years ago in its report on last week’s Impressionist and Modern sales in London. Once again, the magazine’s report contains some curious comments that would limit confidence that the identified buyer was really Tanya Buckrell Pos’s client:
Christie’s also faced difficulties the following night with one of its star lots, Claude Monet’s “Nymphéas”, dating from 1906. Encouraged by the record £40.9m that Andrey Melnichenko, a young Russian tycoon, paid exactly two years earlier for another, later work from the same series, Continue Reading