LOADSA MONET! Pure gold: La Cuirasse d'Or by Kees van Dongen sold for [pounds sterling]1,329,250.

The Daily Mail (London, England) | February 6, 2009 | Copyright

Byline: Harry Mount

THE SUPER-RICH aren't like you and me they don't get wet in the rain. And snowflakes are polite enough to avoid their immaculately coiffed hair-dos.

It may have been snowing outside, and the streets of London running with grit-flecked snowmelt, but the zillionaires who gathered for this week's gold-plated Impressionist sale at Christie's remained miraculously untouched.

The nap of the suede collars on the men's coats ran true; the mink trim on the ladies' jackets glowed dark chocolate and silver; the black Tuscan leather of ...

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