“CHRISTIE’S and Sotheby’s sold just under £248m ($399.3m) worth of Impressionist and Modern art in three days of auctions in London earlier this week. The total is one of the highest ever achieved for the February Impressionist sales in London, and seemed to prove that the recession that hit the art market in 2009 is well and truly over.”
//www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/02/impressionist_and_modern_auctions.
In other words: Yay, no more recession! Furthermore, you can learn the about Picasso’s torrid love life.
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