MONET'S WORLD FAMOUS 'WATER LILLIES' OF 1906 TO BE AUCTIONED FOR A JAW-DROPPING PRICE ESTIMATED AT UP TO RM 150 MILLION! EVEN I CANNOT AFFORD IT

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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 23^rd June 2014

Sotheby’s London is delighted to announce that a highlight of the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on Monday 23^rd 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.”