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A Cezanne painting sold at the fourth highest price ever for a work of art at auction: $60,502,500. "Still Life With Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit" is "as close to perfection as I have ever witnessed a work of art," Charles Moffett, a specialist in Impressionist and modern art for Sotheby's auction house, said after Monday's sale.

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