Impressionist Auction At Sotheby's London

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 01: One of the greatest works by Gustav Klimt ever to appear at auction, his luminous Bauerngarten (Flower Garden) sold for £47.9 million ($59.3 million) at Sotheby's on March 1, 2017 in London, England. Klimt's Bauerngarten (Flower Garden) achieved the third highest price for any work ever sold at auction in Europe, and a new record price for any landscape by the artist. The painting was the star lot of Sotheby's Evening Sales of Impressionist, Modern and Surrealist art tonight, which made an overall total of £194.7 million ($240.8 million) - the highest total for any auction ever held in London. In a sale in which five lots sold for over £10 million, other highlights included Pablo Picasso's Plant de Tomates, painted days before the liberation of Paris in 1944, and a new record for Alfred Sisley. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's)