A painting by the famous French painter Claude Monet, which has been in the hands of a family since 1948, will be offered for sale in Paris for a record price of $3,200,000.
Claude Monet’s painting “Les Saules, Giverny” (The Willows, Giverny), painted in 1886, reappears in the French art market, where the artist’s paintings are becoming increasingly rare.
Speaking on behalf of the Ader auction house, David Nordmann told Reuters, “Claude Monet’s paintings of this scale, of this size, are no longer available among French families. They are mostly found in major museums or foreign collections, but it is very rare to find them in France. “This is a big opportunity for the market,” he said.
Monet’s oil painting, measuring 73 cm x 92 cm, belonged to a family of Jewish origin and was exhibited in their luxurious apartment in the center of Paris. The family’s grandfather bought the painting from a gallery in Nice in 1948, and it has remained in the family’s possession ever since.
Although this painting is not as famous as the Gare Saint Lazare paintings, whose value reaches 100 million euros, “Les Saules, Giverny” bears the artist’s trademark style. “This is a typical work by Claude Monet, especially in terms of his brushstrokes and how he brings out the light,” Nordmann said.
From 1883 until his death in 1926, Monet found solace in Giverny, west of Paris. She transformed a pink stucco property into her permanent home and studio, growing a Japanese-style garden of flowers and trees spread over a pond full of water lilies. This garden found a place in his paintings as an inspiration for many of his paintings.
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