Claude Monet - Le Bassin aux Nymphéas. Water Lily Pond 1919
Le Bassin aux Nymphéas. Water Lily Pond 1919
100x200cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 80.5 million
Auction house: Christie's, London
Sale date: 24 June 2008
Seller: J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller
Buyer: Arts & Management International Ltd. for Private Collector
From Christie's:
Le bassin aux nymphéas is one of the great rarities of Impressionist and Modern art: a painting of Monet's beloved water lilies, forming part of his final painting campaign, that was signed, dated and sold by the artist soon after its execution.