Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Claude Monet et Mme Henriot 1880

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Claude Monet et Mme Henriot 1880

Claude Monet et Mme Henriot 1880
54x73cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 3.21 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, New York
Sale date: 05 May 2009
Seller: Private Collection, Europe
Buyer: Anonymous buyer

Renoir and Monet were considered the pillars of the Impressionist movement, and by 1880, the two artists were ready to leave the group officially and exhibit their work on their own.