UNITED KINGDOM: THREE IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS GIVEN TO ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOUNDATION CHARITY RAISE MORE THAN 11 MILLION POUNDS AT AUCTION

Record ID: 859961

  • Title: UNITED KINGDOM: THREE IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS GIVEN TO ST FRANCIS OF ASSISI FOUNDATION CHARITY RAISE MORE THAN 11 MILLION POUNDS AT AUCTION
  • Date: 4th February 2002
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FEBRUARY 4, 2002)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) ( * BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) VARIOUS, EXTERIOR CHRISTIE'S AUCTION HOUSE AT NIGHT WIDE OF AUCTIONEER STARTING BIDDING FOR PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR'S L'ESTAQUE WIDE OF AUCTION IN PROGRESS (2 SHOTS) SMV PROXY BIDDERS ON THE TELEPHONE (2 SHOTS) SCU TWO MILLION POUNDS ON BOARD WIDE OF AUCTIONEER STARTING BIDDING FOR CLAUDE MONET'S GOLFE D'ANTIBES SCU PEOPLE LOOKING IN CATALOGUE SMV TELEPHONE BIDDERS SMV AUCTIONEER TAKING CLOSING BID FOR SALE OF PAINTING WIDE OF AUCTION HOUSE STAFF CARRYING MONET PRAIRIE DE LIMETZ INTO AUCTION WIDE OF BIDDING IN PROCESS VARIOUS, AUCTIONEER TAKING BIDS ( SHOTS) SMV PEOPLE AT AUCTION VARIOUS, AUCTIONEER TAKING CLOSING BIDS/ ELECTRONIC BOARD WITH 2.2 MILLION POUNDS (3 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 19th February 2002 12:00
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  • Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Topics: Arts,Quirky,Religion,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
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  • Story Text: Three paintings given to a charity run by Franciscan monks, who are devoted to a life of poverty, have sold for more than 11 million pounds (15 million dollars) at a London auction.
    One of the paintings, La Seine a Chatou by Maurice de Vlaminck, sold for 7.2 million pounds, a world record for the artist at auction, Christie's auctioneers said on Monday (February 4).
    The other two pictures sold on behalf of the St Francis of Assisi Foundation were Renoir's L'Estanque, which fetched 2.2 million pounds, and Monet's Golfe d'Antibes, which sold for
    7 million pounds. Buyers' names were not given.
    The foundation, which funds projects to fight poverty and disease in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Brazil, received the paintings as a gift from a private collector.
    Claude Monet's "Prairie de Limetz" which had not been shown publicly for over a hundred years fetched 2.7 million pounds.
    Sales of impressionist, modern and surrealist art fetched a total of 48.8 million pounds -- the highest for over a decade in the impressionist and modern category. Eleven works sold for more than a million pounds.
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