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3.Claude Monet’s Bassin aux nympheas, les rosiers (pond with water lilies and roses) was another star of the evening sale with a $20.41 million price tag.

Sotheby’s later disclosed the buyer was Dalian Wanda Group, the Chinese commercial property developer and cinema chain operator founded by Wang Jianlin.

It paid $28.1 million at Christie’s for a Picasso portrait.