1.   Back home, it usually hangs in a room with mainstream Impressionist works by the likes of Renoir and Monet, in whose company it seems slightly eccentric.

2.   Impressionist works were probably culled and sold elsewhere.

3.   Indeed, many of the second-rate Impressionist works, or those that had been up at auction recently died quietly in the salesroom.

4.   Many of the second-rate impressionist works or those that had recently been up at auction died quietly in the sales room.

5.   On Tuesday night, modern art tended to perform better than the Impressionist works.

6.   The Harriman house in Georgetown, with its fine collection of Impressionist works, became a headquarters of sorts for the party in exile.

7.   It ranges from the romantic paintings of Caspar David Friedrich to impressionist works by Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne, while Auguste Rodin is among the sculptors represented.

8.   The painting was one of a dozen Impressionist works from the estate of Margaret Kahn Ryan, the daughter of the legendary financier Otto Kahn.

9.   Astronomical prices realised by Impressionist works at that time were hailed as a sign of the boom when Japanese buyers in particular bought heavily at high prices.