Monet’s – “Le Bassin aux Nymphéas” – $80.4 million

A record price for a Monet, $80.4 million, was set for one of the rarest of his waterlilies yesterday at a Christie’s auction.

The previous record for a Monet, $41.4 million for “The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil,” was set last month at Christie’s in New York.

via NYTimes, read the entire article there.