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Friday, 20 June 2014 09:41

Paintings from Heiress Huguette Clark’s Collection Sold at Christie’s

John Singer Sargent’s 'Girl Fishing at San Vigilio.' John Singer Sargent’s 'Girl Fishing at San Vigilio.'

The reclusive heiress Huguette Clark sold her first painting Wednesday, three years after her death at 104. She did okay, too, with two paintings of Fifth Avenue (as seen from a window of her Manhattan mansion) each going for $19,000 at a Christie’s auction in New York.

A self-portrait of the artist holding a palette went for $13,000, and Clark’s work titled “Cereus, night blooming cactus” fetched $6,000, our colleague Melinda Henneberger reports.

At least four descendants of Huguette’s father, billionaire copper baron and Montana senator William A. Clark, were among those bidding.

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