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On Thursday in Paris, forward of a marquee cross-category auction, Sotheby’s held an Impressionist and trendy art evening sale that brought in a total of €36.5 million with premium ($43 million). Led by auctioneer Aurélie Vandevoorde, Sotheby’s Paris director of the Impressionist and fashionable art, the public sale realized a sell-through fee of 88 percent across 31 lots offered. You want a membership to AMMpro to view this text and other unique content day by day. In 2006, Fred sold two Munchs, including the Linde Frieze, at Sotheby’s in London, where …