One day after California Poppy Day, on April 7, California’s oldest and largest auction house broke a record for artist Granville Redmond. His oil painting of poppies and lupine in a lake with mountains hammered in at Bonhams & Butterfields as the top lot at $450,000. Redmond’s poppy paintings call to mind another famous Impressionist’s paintings of poppies, in Giverny, Claude Monet. That artist’s work sells at auction for as high as $71 million, not surprisingly, since he is cred
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