From the Most
Iconic and Celebrated of Monet’s Painting Series:
Claude Monet’s Nymphéas (Water Lilies) To Lead Sotheby’s June 2014 Impressionist &
Modern Art Evening Sale
Estimated at
£20-30 million / $33–50 million
Sotheby’s London Impressionist & Modern Art
Evening Sale
Monday 23rd June 2014
Sotheby’s London is delighted to announce that a
highlight of the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on Monday 23rd
June 2014 is Claude Monet’s Nymphéas (Water
Lilies) of 1906, estimated at £20-30
million/ $33-50 million. Instantly recognisable and revered the world over, Claude Monet’s Nymphéas are among
the most iconic and celebrated paintings of turn of the century. The profound
impact the series has made on the evolution of modern art marks them out as
Monet’s greatest achievement.
Yours for around RM 150 million
This painting was selected by the
artist to be exhibited at his seminal
exhibition held at the Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, in 1909 to unveil his Water Lily paintings in a show
dedicated purely to this subject.
It had also been singled out and
acquired by Paul Durand-Ruel - the legendary art dealer who
championed the Impressionists and represented Monet, among many other of the
greatest artists of his time – and it remained in his personal collection
throughout his lifetime.
The painting has since been widely exhibited at some of the world’s most prestigious international
museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Musée
National d'Art Moderne, Paris, and since 2011 has been on loan to the Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston. It is this painting, together with the others in this
series, that eventually led to Monet’s Les Grandes décorations which
were painted between 1914-26, now in the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris.
Helena
Newman, Sotheby’s Co-Head, Impressionist & Modern Art Worldwide comments:
“Impressionism’s greatest genius was Claude Monet and
his finest works were the increasingly abstracted paintings he made of his lily
pond at Giverny near Paris.
"Museum-quality paintings of this importance
are the driving force in the art
market now and this work’s square format and exquisite
colouration has already attracted much attention when exhibited internationally
in the lead-up to the sale.”
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