RM 55 MILLION FOR CLAUDE MONET PAINTING AS PRETTY AS A PICTURE!

‘Capturing the Essence of Impressionism’

Exquisite Museum-Quality Painting by Claude Monet
Estimated at £7.5 – 10 Million / HK$90 – 120 Million*

Sotheby’s London 3 February Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

Claude Monet, L’Embarcadère, 1871, oil on canvas, est. £7.5 – 10 million / HK$90 – 120 million

              Sotheby’s forthcoming London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 3 February 2015 will feature an exceptional painting of a Dutch landscape by Claude Monet – appearing on the market for the first time in a quarter of a century.  

The museum-quality work has been internationally exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and provides the perfect embodiment of the evolution of Impressionism.

L’Embarcadère was painted by Monet in Zaandam in Holland, where the artist lived with his family for four months over the summer of 1871.  He produced a series of 25 pictures that explored several areas surrounding Zaandam, focussing his attention upon the architectural motifs of the Dutch landscape, canals, mills, and boats. 

Within a strong compositional framework and in a boldly inventive style, Monet’s use of colour and the areas of lively brushwork represent his attempts to evoke the atmosphere of the scene, and he includes subtle, but evocative, signifiers of the weather in the full sails of the river-boats, glistening yellow painted houses and the cool relief of the shaded river-bank.