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Have you ever been to an auction? If not, you have a great opportunity to watch a record breaking painting by Claude Monet being auctioned at Christie’s Auction House.
An article by BBC News have a short clip of an actual auction .
Claude Monet by rerouting a river created a water-garden at Giverny, where he painted his famous “Water lilies” paintings.
Painted in 1919 and only once exhibitioned in public, the “Water Lily Pond” (Le Bassin Aux Nympheas) was sold yesterday for a record breaking price of $80.5 million, which was almost double the estimated price.
Here is one more short, but informative article on the subject by CNN.
