Claude Monet - Au bord du fjord, près Christiania 1895
Au bord du fjord, près Christiania 1895
65x100cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 3.51 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, London
Sale date: 05 February 2014
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Sotheby’s, London:
Au bord du fjord, près Christiania belongs to Monet’s series of paintings executed while he was visiting his stepson, Jacques Hoschedé, in Norway in the winter of 1895. His interest in the region had already been stimulated by seeing several paintings of the dramatic Norwegian landscape by his friend Frits Thaulow at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. The exhibition of these pictures had a lasting effect on Monet, and when presented with the opportunity in 1895, he set out for himself to see the crystalline colours of the Scandinavian landscape.