{"id":153457,"date":"2025-11-25T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153457\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:20:09","slug":"unknown-renoir-painting-sells-for-3-7m-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/153457\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Renoir painting sells for $3.7m at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">Jean Renoir, born in 1894, went on to receive a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975, several years before he died aged 84.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">His works include the 1930s classic La Grande Illusion, following two French prisoners of war trying to escape German captivity during World War I.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">The painting had been valued at \u20ac1m-\u20ac1.5m and was acquired by an \u201cinternational buyer\u201d, Drouot said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">The high-end art market has dipped in recent years, but lately, record-breaking sales have indicated a revival in demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">A self-portrait by celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for US$54.66m ($96m) in New York last week, a record for a painting by a woman, two nights after a Gustav Klimt canvas fetched US$236.4m \u2013 the second-most expensive artwork ever sold at auction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sPFaqtujRFrTgah\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jean Renoir, born in 1894, went on to receive a Lifetime Achievement Academy Award in 1975, several years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[20391,70447,102173,442,498,499,500,1975,1978,102175,501,102176,156,2082,11775,10053,102174,67069,1132,111,139,69,35731,3074,6943,13910,102172,312,1128,3235,13835,14578,4060,4576],"class_list":["post-153457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-20391","tag-70447","tag-37m","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-at","tag-auction","tag-auguste","tag-design","tag-drouot","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-french","tag-house","tag-impressionist","tag-jean","tag-million","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-paris","tag-previously","tag-renoir","tag-says","tag-sells","tag-sold","tag-toddler","tag-tuesday","tag-unknown","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}