A rare painting by Gustave Caillebotte, “young man at his window“, was bought on Thursday evening for $ 53 million by the Getty museum in Los Angeles, smashing the record of the French painter, during the sale of an impressionist collection at Christie’s in New York.
The Cox Collection, named after Texas industrialist who died in 2020 Ed Cox, also included three works by Vincent Van Gogh, which totaled more than $150 million, including an oil on canvas, “Wooden huts among olive trees and cypresses“, sold for $71.3 million, becoming one of the painter’s most expensive.
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Another painting by Paul Cézanne, “L’Estaque with red roofs“, sold for $55.3 million.
In total, the 23 pieces tracing the entire history of the Impressionists, also including paintings by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, reached 332 million dollars during this auction, which ended held at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
The record for a Caillebotte was $22 million, for a painting, “Uphill path“, sold at Christie’s in London in 2019.
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