A "Meule" of the series ” Haystacks Claude Monet was auctioned off on Wednesday night in New York by 81.4 million dollars, a record for a canvas of the painter French impressionist.
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So said the house Christie s. The price paid for this canvas exceeds in around a million dollars, the record for a work of Monet at auction, "Le Bassin aux Nympheas". This was sold in London in 2008 by 80,4 million, also at Christie s.
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The series Haystacks consists of 25 paintings in which the painter made several versions of haystacks in fields after the harvest. They were made between 1890 and 1891.
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