Claude Monet - Nymphéas 1916-1919
Nymphéas 1916-1919
200x180cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 9.90 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 9 May 2001
Seller: Private Collection, USA
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
From Christie's, New York:
After many years of limited recognition and dire poverty, Monet began to prosper. In 1890, at the age of fifty, Monet enjoyed enough popular success to afford the luxury of his own house and garden at Giverny . Despite his fascination with the distinct characteristics of light he found in England, Italy and Norway during the 1890s, his attention was increasingly focused on the envirions of his new home.