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Modigliani, Picasso, Renoir, And Chagall Feature In Bonhams £2.7M Impressionist & Modern Art Sale

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Bonhams Impressionist & Modern Art auction made a total of £2,657,700 with a Picasso, a Modigliani, a Renoir and a Chagall amongst the top lots sold today, 7th February 2012.A stunning painting of ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ by Pablo Picasso sold for £864,450. Here Picasso has taken a subject he knows well, via his walks to, and the view from, his studio, but he chooses to challenge the truth in order to explore artistic aims other than realism.Dated 1954, it is one of his later landscapes, but it shows the influence of his earlier experiments with Cubism. By October 1954, when it was comple... (original story)