Femme nue Couchée among works by Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin and others to go under hammer for total $166m Paintings by three titans of modern art have sold for a total of almost $166m (£134m) at auction, confirming the buoyancy of the global market. In a sale of modern art at Sotheby's in New York on Tuesday evening, a total of more than $408m was paid for works by artists including Picasso, Monet, Cézanne, Gauguin, Magritte, Dalí and Renoir.