Monet, Dali works exhibited in Dublin

Paintings  by artists including Monet, Kandinsky, Dali and Sisley will be on view in Dublin today  to preview a Sotheby's auction…

Paintings  by artists including Monet, Kandinsky, Dali and Sisley will be on view in Dublin today  to preview a Sotheby's auction being held in London next month.

Sotheby's said this was the first time that an auction house had brought such work to Dublin in advance of a sale in London.

The 20 paintings on view at  Sotheby's premises on Molesworth Street - for one day only -  are worth more than €5.3 million. They will be auctioned in London on February 5th and 6th.

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