Claude Monet - Nymphéas 1905
Nymphéas 1905
88x99cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 43.76 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 7 November 2012
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer
During the last two decades of his life, Monet devoted himself almost single-mindedly to depicting the water garden that he had fashioned at Giverny, producing an astonishingly complex series of more than two hundred canvases that constitute some of the most novel and influential works of his entire oeuvre.