Claude Monet - Près Monte-Carlo 1883

Claude Monet - Près Monte-Carlo 1883

Près Monte-Carlo 1883
65x82cm oil/canvas
Sold for: USD 7.08 million
Auction house: Sotheby’s, New York
Sale date: 09 May 2016
Seller: Private Collection
Buyer: Anonymous buyer

From Sotheby’s, New York:
Monet had a lifelong commitment to painting en plein air as he explored how atmospheric conditions affect light and color. On December 1, 1883 Monet was near completion of six large interior panels at the apartment of his dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, when he realized his extreme frustration with this project because he felt that his creativity was being stifled by the indoor surroundings. “I cannot wait until I am out of all this, it has been a century since I last worked outdoors” (quoted in Joachim Pissarro, Monet and the Mediterranean, New York, 1997, p. 27). Although Monet’s description of his state of mind was mostly one of hyperbole he impulsively departed to the Mediterranean with fellow Impressionist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir who assured him of the “wonderful things awaiting them there” (Paul Hayes Tucker, Claude Monet: Life and Art, New Haven, 1995, p. 118).