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

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

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

To get a score like that really was a shot in the arm. It got everyone fired up.

We had a record number of records.

A fanatical finish. That was the shot in the arm that we could actually go for '57.