Claude Monet - Meule. Grainstack 1891

Claude Monet - Meule. Grainstack 1891

Meule. Grainstack 1891
72x92cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 81.4 million
Auction house: Christie's, New York
Sale date: 16 November 2016
Seller: Anonymous owner
Buyer: Anonymous buyer

From Christie's:
Executed over the winter of 1890-1891, Claude Monet’s Grainstack series was the most challenging and revolutionary endeavour the artist, then aged 50, had ever undertaken.
Monet had experimented during the later 1880s with depicting a single landscape subject under different lighting and weather conditions, but he had never conceived of painting so many pictures — some 25 canvases in all — that were differentiated almost entirely through colour, touch and atmospheric effect.