當地時間5月14日，法國印象派大師莫奈的系列繪畫作品《乾草堆》中的一幅在紐約蘇富比拍賣行以1.107億美元(約合人民幣7.61億元)天價拍出，成為迄今為止莫奈畫作中成交價格最高的作品。
A painting from Claude Monet's "Haystacks" series has sold for $110.7 million, making it the most expensive Impressionist artwork ever to be bought at auction, according to Sotheby's in New York.
克勞德·莫奈《乾草堆》系列中的一幅畫作近日拍出了1.107億美元(約合人民幣7.61億元)天價，成為目前為止拍賣價格最高的印象派畫作。這幅畫作由蘇富比拍賣行在美國紐約市拍賣。
impressionist [ɪm'preʃənɪst]：n.印象主義者;印象派作家
While the hammer price -- the highest bid -- came in just under $100 million, the addition of a buyer's premium -- the fee charged by auction houses -- took the final price to $110.7 million.
雖然該畫作的拍賣成交價(最高競價)略低於1億美元，但加上買家需支付的拍賣服務費，總價格就達到了1.107億美元。
Monet’s 「Meules」 (Haystacks) sold at Sotheby’s sale of Impressionist & Modern Art Tuesday night. The auction house says it’s a world auction record for the artist and the first work of Impressionist art to cross the $100 million threshold at auction.
本周二晚間，這幅名為Meules(乾草堆)的作品在蘇富比拍賣行舉辦的「印象派及現代藝術」拍賣會上售出。拍賣行稱，此次拍賣價格創造了莫奈作品的世界拍賣紀錄，也成為第一幅拍賣價突破1億美元的印象派畫作。
It took six bidders just eight minutes to reach a record-breaking sum for the oil painting, which went to an anonymous bidder Tuesday.
六位競拍人僅用八分鐘時間就將這幅油畫的拍賣價抬高到破紀錄的成交金額，最終拍得畫作的是一位匿名買家。
The 1890 painting is one of only four works from Monet’s acclaimed 「Haystacks」 series to come to auction this century, and one of only eight examples remaining in private hands. The 17 others reside at museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
這幅油畫創作於1890年，屬於莫奈廣受讚譽的《乾草堆》系列。本世紀以來參與拍賣的該系列畫作僅有四幅，這幅畫是其中之一，同時也是僅有的八幅存於私人手中的作品之一。《乾草堆》系列中的另外17幅作品保存在各大博物館，包括大都會藝術博物館和芝加哥藝術學院等。
The previous owners had purchased the painting in 1986 for $2.53 million. Sotheby’s did not provide any details on the new buyer.
這幅畫作此前的主人於1986年以253萬美元(約合人民幣1739萬元)的價格購將其買下。蘇富比拍賣行並未透露有關新買家的任何信息。
"One of the most recognizable images in art history, Monet's 'Haystacks' series has long served as an inspiration to countless artists since its creation in the early 1890s," said the auction house's head of Impressionist and modern art, August Uribe, in a press release.
蘇富比拍賣行印象派及現代畫作負責人奧古斯特·烏瑞博在新聞發布會上說：「莫奈的《乾草堆》系列是藝術史上最被認可的畫作之一。自從19世紀90年代問世以來，給無數藝術家帶來了靈感。」
It is now the ninth most expensive painting ever to be sold at auction, a list currently topped by Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi," which went for $450 million at Christie's in New York in 2017.
莫奈的這幅名畫目前在畫作拍賣成交價中排第九，排名居首的是李奧納多·達·文西的《救世主》，於2017年由佳士得拍賣行在紐約拍賣，成交價為4.5億美元(約合30.9億元人民幣)。
Pablo Picasso's "Les femmes d'Alger (Version 'O')" held the previous auction record, having sold for $179.4 million in 2015. And the sale of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" for $119.9 million in 2012 marked more than a new art record at the time: It was the first time that a work in pastels, rather than oil or acrylic, had come close to achieving such a price.
之前的拍賣價世界紀錄由巴勃羅·畢卡索的名畫《阿爾及爾女人(O版)》保持，這幅畫作在2015年以1.794億美元(約合12.3億元人民幣)價格成交。愛德華·蒙克的名畫《吶喊》在2012年以1.199億美元(約合8.2億元人民幣)價格成交，當時在藝術拍賣領域創下一個新紀錄：這是彩蠟木板畫首次拍得如此高的價格，而此前拍出高價的都是油畫或者丙烯酸顏料畫。
acrylic [ə'krɪlɪk]：adj.丙烯酸的