Photograph: Andrew Cowie, AFP
The second-highest amount ever to be paid for Claude Monet’s work was achieved by Sotheby’s London on Monday, when the auction house sold one of the paintings from the French Impressionist’s iconic Water Lilies series.
Sold for $A57.3 million (£31.7 million IBP), Nympheas (1906) was the centrepiece of Monet’s seminal 1909 exhibition at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris, in which he unveiled the Water Lilies series.
