Claude Monet – Nymphéas. UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £40,760,000
Nymphéas (1907) by Monet at Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary evening auction in London on June 24 carries the highest estimate ever placed on a work by the artist at auction in Europe. Painted in 1907 the ethereal and luminous view of Monet’s famed water lily pond at Giverny is estimated at £30-£40 million. Together with the Lewis Collection and other major works on the same evening the painting arrives at a defining moment for the London art market, bringing an exceptional concentration of museum-quality works to auction.