One of Claude Monet’s acclaimed “Haystack” paintings has fetched almost $111 million (£86 million) in a record-breaking sale at auction.
Mueles, which was painted by the French artist in 1890, went under the hammer at Sotheby’s New York.
It sold for $110.7 million (£85.77m), some 44 times the price it raised when it last went up for auction in 1986.
Six bidders battled for more than eight minutes before a winner became clear, Sotheby’s said.
The auction house said the evocative Meules is among "the most celebrated images of the artist's oeuvre".
It depicts a row of haystacks casting long shadows in the warm glow of the sun.
The identity of the buyer was not immediately revealed.
