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The top 10 most expensive artworks ever auctioned
7. Le Bassin Aux Nymphmas by Claude Monet (£50m)
The French impressionist was no stranger to water lilies but this 1919 piece (which has only ever been publicly displayed once in the past 80 years) floated someone's boat to the tune of £50,743,636 ($80,379,591) at an auction in London in 2008.
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