New York – A rare painting by Gustave Caillebotte, “Young man at his window”, was bought Thursday evening for 53 million dollars by the Getty museum in Los Angeles, shattering the French painter’s record, during the sale of a collection impressionist at Christie’s in New York.
The Cox collection, named after the 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, “Cabanes de bois dans les oliviers et cypress “, sold for $ 71.3 million, becoming one of the painter’s most expensive.
Another painting by Paul Cézanne, “L’Estaque aux toits rouges”, sold for $ 55.3 million.
In total, the 23 pieces retracing the entire history of the Impressionists, also including paintings by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, reached $ 332 million during this auction, which took place. held at the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan.
The record for a Caillebotte amounted to $ 22 million, for a painting, “Rising Path”, sold at Christie’s in London in 2019.
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