The market is hungry for spectacular impressionist works as the smashing results for paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne and Monet indicate.

The sale was a shot in the arm for the impressionist market.

It was strong right across the board without being crazy. This is not a market in any way out of control.

Renoir was one of the primary people that started the impressionist movement. He roomed with Monet.

We had a record number of records.

There's one painting that historically would have been better, ... because it was painted at the beginning of the Impressionist movement, and the one we're using is painted later. In the script they say, 'This is a very important painting because it was painted at start of the Impressionists,' and that's not really true. It was painted a few years later. But they selected the painting for purely visual reasons -- that they would capture better on camera, that it was more appealing, that it would catch the eye better.