Claude Monet - Le Palais Contarini 1908
Le Palais Contarini 1908
73x92cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 30.82 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, London
Sale date: 19 June 2013
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
Monet and his wife Alice travelled to Venice for the first time in the autumn of 1908 at the invitation of Mary Young Hunter, a wealthy American who had been introduced to the Monets by John Singer Sargent.