Matisse sold at auction was $22 million.

November 07, 2007
A painting by a impressionist master fetched a record price at Christie's auction house in Midtown yesterday.

An oil on canvas work by Henri Matisse sold at Christie's for $33.6 million – the highest price ever paid for a Matisse.

Painted in 1937, the work was purchased by an unidentified buyer. The previous record for a Matisse sold at auction was $22 million.



Source:

• http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=8&aid=75376

This is horrible! Russians are ignorant about impressionists like Renoir, Matisse & Picasso? How dreadsful?

• bloomberg.com Picasso, Renoir, Matisse Paintings Impounded at Moscow Airport
  By: John Varoli

Sotheby's in New York

A major sale of impressionist and modern art at Sotheby's in New York late on Wednesday fell far short of expectations, with works by several major artists failing to find buyers.

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• http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iDEI4lfMvJSMkDTP0z-FPflHvDOQ

• DailyMailUK

• http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?lang=nl
  

‘I have now spent a week working hard in the wheatfields, under the blazing sun,’ Van Gogh wrote to Theo on 21 June 1888. That summer he devoted many paintings to the same subject. The waving grain gave him an opportunity to experiment with color and technique. Here he juxtaposed the golden yellow of the ripe wheat with a colorful swirl of yellow, green, red, brown and black in the foreground. The very high placing of the horizon means that nearly the whole canvas is covered with the colors of the growing crops. Visible in the distance are the low mountains of the Alpilles range. VanGogh