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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Christie's and Sotheby's impressionist and modern art sales

Sotheby's and Christie's: Auctioneer takes bids  on Pablo Picasso at Christie's
Christie's auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen takes bids on Picasso's The Absinthe Drinker
Photograph: Warren Allott/AFP/Getty Images
Sotheby's and Christie's: Gustav Klimt Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
Klimt's Portrait of Ria Munk III, which sold for £18.8m, is presented at Christie's
Photograph: Warren Allott/AFP/Getty Images
Sotheby's and Christie's: A telephone bidder makes a bid at Christie's auctioneers
A telephone bid is made at Christie's
Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
Sotheby's and Christie's: Christie's Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale preview
Giovanna Bertazzoni, Christie's head of sale for impressionist and modern art, admires Monet's waterlily painting Nymphéas, 1906, painted in the artist's garden at Giverny, which failed to sell despite a final bid of £29m
Photograph: Clive Gee/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Sotheby's and Christie's: Sotheby's staff hold the Chaim Soutine painting at Sotheby's
Bids are placed at Sotheby's on Chaïm Soutine's Le Valet de Chambre
Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
Sotheby's and Christie's: Sotheby's staff hold the Pablo Picasso painting
Picasso's Buste de Matador is auctioned at Sotheby's
Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
Sotheby's and Christie's: Sotheby's staff hold the Edouard Manet painting
A Manet self-portrait, which sold for £22.4m, is auctioned at Sotheby's
Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
Sotheby's and Christie's: A telephone bidder places a bid during the Sotheby's
A telephone bid is placed at Sotheby's
Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
Sotheby's and Christie's: An employee holds the Henri Mattise painting at Sotheby;s
Bids are placed for Matisse's Odalisques Jouant aux Dames, which sold for £11.8m
Photograph: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
Sotheby's and Christie's: Employees hang Andre Derain work at Sotheby's
Sotheby's staff take down André Derain's Arbres à Collioure, which sold for £16.3m
Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
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