|
Monks Raise Millions at London Art Auction VOA News 5 Feb 2002 07:08 UTC 
Three paintings given to an order of monks devoted to a life of poverty have sold for more than $15 million at a London auction.
A spokesman for Christie's auction house says one of the paintings, La Seine a Chatou, by Maurice de Vlaminck, brought slightly more than $10 million -- an auction record for the artist's work.
The other two paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir were given to the Saint Francis of Assisi Foundation by an unidentified European art collector.
Money raised from the sale will be used in projects to fight poverty and disease the monks run around the world.
Some information for this report provided by AFP and Reuters.
|