Claude Monet masterpiece fetches $70.4 million at auction
An impressionist masterwork from Monet s Water Lilies series smashed price expectations in New York. The artist had dedicated his twilight years to the iconic motif.
A water lily work by Claude Monet has gone under the hammer in New York
Le Bassin aux nymphéas (Water Lily Pond, 1919), a celebrated work from Charles Monet’s iconic
Water Lilies series of paintings, was sold for near $70.4 million (€58.3 million) in New York last night.
The price is among the top five for works by the artist to be sold at auction the $110.7 million record was set in 2019 for a painting from Monet s Haystacks series. It far outstripped the price for works by Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne also sold at the Sotheby s contemporary art auction.
By Eromosele Abiodun
Traffic has worsened in Apapa and its environs following the disruption of the electronic call-up system (ETO) introduced about two months ago by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) with the support of the Lagos State Government to ensure free flow of vehicular movements.
THISDAY’s investigation showed that security agents, who were said to have frustrated all efforts to restore sanity to the port city, have cashed in on the situation to extort articulated vehicles’ drivers.
Even the efforts of a presidential task team failed with tales of corruption trailing its assignment.
However, following the return of sanity to the roads in Apapa last month as a result of the Electronic Call-up System, the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had vowed to expose the cabal behind the Apapa gridlock if they did not desist from sabotaging the government’s efforts at ensuring a free flow of traffic.
1921: ‘Hands off Thornden!’ Syracuse rallies to preserve its city park from building project
Posted May 09, 2021
The interior of the amphitheater at Thornden Park in Syracuse. The park is the second largest in the city built around 1921 after a purchase from a wealthy land owner. The park has Swimming pool (50 m), One multi-purpose field,five tennis courts,three basketball courts a playground a fitness trail the E.M. Mills Memorial Rose Garden an outdoor amphitheatre, and a Lily pond.
Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
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On Dec. 13, 1921, the city of Syracuse officially purchased a large plot of land on the city’s east side.
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A poster from 1875 advocates for the public restoration of Fort Edgecomb on Davis Island, Edgecomb. It was found among Wiscasset resident Steve Christiansen’s collection of historical memorabilia.
The town of Edgecomb, “in the southern part of Lincoln County, is situated upon the peninsula formed by the Sheepscot and Damariscotta Rivers, having Newcastle on the north and Boothbay upon the south. At the northwestern part, it connects with Wiscasset by a bridge seven eighths of a mile in length across the Sheepscot River. West of the southern part of Edgecomb is the town of Westport. The surface of the town is moderately irregular (with many hills and valleys). Granite is the principal rock.”
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