Water Lily Pond Claude Monet Date: 1917 - 1919 Style: Impressionism Series: Water Lilies Genre: flower painting
On 19 June 2007, one of Monet's water lily paintings sold for £18.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in London.[12] On 24 June 2008 another of Monet's water lily paintings, Le bassin aux nymphéas, sold for almost £41 million at Christie's in London, almost double the estimate of £18 to £24 million.[13]
In May 2010, it was announced that the 1906 Nymphéas work would be auctioned in London in June 2010, the painting had an estimated sale price of between £30 and £40 million.[14] Giovanna Bertazzoni, Christie's auction house director and head of impressionist and modern art, said, "Claude Monet's water-lily paintings are amongst the most recognised and celebrated works of the 20th Century and were hugely influential to many of the following generations of artists."[14] The sale took place on 23 June 2010 at the auction house and the painting attracted bids of up to £29 million, but it ultimately failed to sell.[15]
On 6 May 2014, one of the Water Lilies paintings was auctioned at Christie's, New York City for $27 million.
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