Claude Monet - Champ de blé 1881

Claude Monet - Champ de blé 1881

Champ de blé 1881
65x82cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 12.12 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, New York
Sale date: 08 November 2012
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer

Monet’s sweeping view of a wheat field beneath a sky of cirrus clouds is among the classic Impressionist landscapes from the early 1880s.