The Monet Buyer Was Arts & Management International

Claude Monet

Le bassin aux nymphéas

Christie’s London June 24, 2008

The top lot of Christie’s London was Monet’s six-foot-wide painting of water lilies from 1919, Le basin aux nymphéas, which sold for £40,921,250 ($80,451,178), rather more than the presale high estimate of £24 million. The buyer was Arts & Management International, a London-based art consultant headed by Tania Buckrell Pos. [from artnet]