Pissaro work fetches record price

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A file photo dated 29/01/14 of a female employee of Sotheby's looking at the 'Composition au Minotaure' by Picasso, at their showroom in central London which was sold for ?10.4 million, during the auction house's Impressionist, Modern and Surreal Art sale. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday February 5, 2014. See PA story SALE Sothebys. Photo credit should read: John Stillwell/PA Wire

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%A painting by Camille Pissarro sold for £19.9 million tonight - almost five times the previous record for a single work by the impressionist artist.

Boulevard Montmartre, Matinee De Printemps was described by Sotheby's in London as "one of the greatest impressionist works to come to auction in a decade".

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