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Monet work may fetch record
'Railway Bridge' is slated for auction May 6.
Associated Press
Published February 28, 2008
NEW YORK - 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. The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil will be offered at Christie's impressionist and modern art sale May 6, its first time at auction in a generation. Monet, who rented a house near the cast-iron railway bridge, painted the work in 1873. The current record for a Monet painting is $36.5-million for his 1904 Nympheas, which was sold last year. Christie's did not identify the seller, but the New York Times said last week it was the Nahmads, a family of art dealers with galleries in New York and London.
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