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Tarrytown school nets $43.7M from sale of donated Monet
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The elite, private Hackley School in Tarrytown netted $43.7 million from the donation of a Claude Monet painting sold at Christie's New York auction house Wednesday.
The "Nympheas" painting is a 1905 view of the lily pond at Giverny from the definitive series of Monet's career. The school received the donation from the estate of Ethel Strong Allen, wife of the late Wall Street executive...
