Claude Monet - La Seine à Argenteuil 1875
La Seine à Argenteuil 1875
59x79cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 14.55 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, London
Sale date: 23 June 2014
Seller: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Sotheby’s, London:
Monet’s paintings of the river at Argenteuil are among the crowning achievements of Impressionist art. Painted in loose brushstrokes and imbued with light and movement, La Seine à Argenteuil is an exquisite example from this series and a masterful illustration of the Impressionist style. The work was painted in 1875, during the years when Monet made Argenteuil his permanent home, and it perfectly captures the combination of rural charm and modernity that first attracted Monet to the town and made it a place of such significance for his fellow Impressionists.