A self portrait by French painter Edouard Manet has been sold for more than £22m - a record price for the artist's work.

法国画家爱德华·马奈的一副自画像以2200万英镑的价格成交，刷新了该画家作品的最高成交记录。

The self portrait was painted in 1878

The work, painted between 1878 and 1879, sold for £22,441,250 at Sotheby's auction¹ house in London.

The previous highest price for a Manet was £16m in New York in 1989.

Sotheby's said it was one of only two self portraits by Manet, and ranks amongst the greatest of the Impressionist（印象派作家） movement.

Called Manet A La Palette, it shows Manet in a bowler² hat（圆顶高帽） , posing with a paintbrush in his hand.

Other sales at the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening sale included Arbres a Collioure by French painter Andre Derain, which sold for more than £16m, and Odalisques Jouant Aux Dames³ by Henri Matisse, which fetched almost £12m.