"Priceless" is the demure response one gets when inquiring about the value of art in most museums, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art barely even likes to acknowledge that there is relationship between art and money in discussing its collection. But a piece in the New York Times about the pending sale of a Monet makes it possible to triangulate. The canvas, the 1874 painting “The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil,” is expected to sell for $35 million. One Christie's expert says there are only three other comparable works by Monet on the same subject, and one of them (pictured) is in the PMA.
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