The painting that will now go on sale at a New York night auction once again puts the impressionist painter’s water lilies on the scene.
The painting of Claude Monet “Le bassin aux nymphéas” (1917-1919) or “Waterlily Pond” In its Spanish translation, it goes up for auction for an estimated price of 65 million dollars in New York next November by Christie’s.
For 30 years, Monet painted landscapes of water lilies and ponds in numerous works and embarked on larger series, such as the panels that form a kind of “Sistine Chapel of Impressionism” exhibited in the Orangerie Museum in Paris.
The painting that will now go on sale at a New York night auction puts the Impressionist painter’s water lilies back on the scene, with a two-meter canvas that “has never been seen publicly, so it is in excellent condition,” he told the Financial Times. Max Carter, Vice President of 20th and 21st Century Art at Christie’s in America.
Monet’s background
Monet’s last auction record was in May 2019, wheno Sotheby’s sold the “Meules” landscape for $110.7 million.
At that time, the painting embodied the highest price ever achieved for a work of Impressionism, reported the specialized media Arts News.
In May 1986 it had been sold by Christie’s New York for $2.53 million.
Source: Ambito
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