At China Guardian’s evening sales in Beijing on Sunday, Claude Monet’s Bassin aux nympheas, les rosiers sold for RMB154.1m (around $24.1m, with fees) at the first-ever Impressionist and Modern art sale of the leading Chinese auction house. The 1913 oil of Monet's beloved Giverny garden is now the most expensive Western work of art ever sold in mainland China, toppling the previous record set last November by Gerhard Richter’s Column at RMB80.5m ($12.65m, with .
In the Asian Art market, the appetite for Western Modern and Contemporary Art masterpieces in recent years have proliferated in Hong Kong – setting record prices in auction sales. This trend has spread northwards into mainland China.
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