Monet painting fetches $80 million at London auction

A water lily painting by Claude Monet sold for more than $80 million Tuesday, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist artist, Christie's said.

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Monet painting sold for $41 million at NYC auction

A Claude Monet painting was auctioned Tuesday for more than $41 million, breaking the auction record for the French Impressionist artist.

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Monet's Painting to Go on Auction Block

A Claude Monet painting of a bridge with two trains passing over the Seine while pleasure boats bob below is expected to break an auction record for the artist when it goes on sale this spring.

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Preliminary Charges in Monet Vandalism

A Paris court filed preliminary charges Thursday against five young people suspected of having vandalized a renowned work by painter Claude Monet, judicial officials said.

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Intruders at Paris' Orsay Damage a Monet

Intruders, apparently drunk, broke into the Orsay Museum through a back door early Sunday and punched a hole in a renowned work by Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the French culture minister said.

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LONDON — The summer auction season here began at Christie's on Tuesday night when a standing-room-only crowd of dealers, collectors and art lovers came from all over the world to watch and bid on one of the largest London sales the auction house has held.

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ZURICH — Three men wearing ski masks walked into a private museum here in daylight, grabbed four 19th-century masterpieces, tossed them into a van and sped off, pulling off one of the largest and most audacious art robberies of all time.

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Precious paintings worth over 100 million Swiss francs ($100 million) have been stolen from a Zurich museum in an armed robbery, the second dramatic art theft in the area in recent days.

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In the early 1920s, Niels Bohr was struggling to reimagine the structure of matter. Previous generations of physicists had thought the inner space of an atom looked like a miniature solar system with the atomic nucleus as the sun and the whirring electrons as planets in orbit.

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China has more billionaires than any country except the United States, as soaring stock and property prices helped to boost wealth among the country's super-rich, researcher Rupert Hoogewerf said on Wednesday.

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What is art really worth? If you wanted to look at Monet's painting of Waterloo Bridge, you could get a print for nothing. Or, you could pay $35 million for the real thing. A Warhol, little more than a copy in itself, will set you back a cool $71.5 million.

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For starters, cultivate a taste for museums and become a member, not a visitor. At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, for example, you can become a supporting member for $250 a year.

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Prosecutors in Switzerland have discovered a haul of looted paintings in a bank safe belonging to a dealer who seized art treasures for Nazi leader Hermann Göring during World War II.

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One day in 1871, legend has it, a French artist named Claude Monet walked into a food shop in Amsterdam, where he had gone to escape the Prussian siege of Paris. There he spotted some Japanese prints being used as wrapping paper.

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Last May Sotheby's convened its grand evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art, part of a semiannual reunion and bazaar for the dealers, collectors, advisers and curators who traffic in the world's most expensive artworks.

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Monet's paintings could shed light on pollution in London at the turn of the 20th Century, say scientists.

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"Over the last six years, as the Musée de l'Orangerie underwent a $36 million renovation and expansion, its most valued treasure, the eight tranquil paintings of Monet's large-format waterlily series, remained trapped inside a noisy and muddy building site."

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Gunmen have robbed a Rio de Janeiro art museum of their most valuable paintings including a Picasso, Matisse, Monet and Dali, the Chacara do Ceu museum director said. The gunmen also mugged five tourists inside the museum, director Vera de Alencar told reporters.

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