NEW YORK, NY.- A new world auction record was set for the French artist Maurice de Vlaminck (1876-1958), at Christie’s New York tonight. The vividly-hued 1905 landscape, a fitting tribute to springtime in New York, sold for $22,482,500 (£13,489,500/€15,063,275). The magnificent Fauvist landscape – a highlight of the pre-sale exhibition – was fought over by multiple bidders before a rapt audience. Conor Jordan, head of Impressionist & Modern Art at Christie’s New York, won the lot after four minutes of bidding on behalf of a unidentified client on the phone. It bested the previous auction record for the artist of $10,756,419, set in 1990 for his work Les Pecheurs a Nanterre, of 1905-1906. With a pre-sale low estimate of $18 million, the Fauve masterpiece by the celebrated French landscape painter — universally lauded as the “wildest of the Fauves” (or “wild beasts” as they were dub