Christie's Images/PA Claude Monet’s water lily paintings, titled “Le Basin Aux Nympheas,” created in the early 1900 was sold at Christie’s impressionist and modern art auction in London on Tuesday, breaking the auction record for the French impressionist artist.
“Le Bassin Aux Nympheas” or “Water Lily Pond,” sold for $80,451 Million.
The painting is part of a collection of large-scale paintings of water lily.
The paintings were signed and dated by the artist in 1919.
The last Monet was set last month at Christie’s in New York, when “The Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil” was acquired for $41.4 million.
“Le Bassin Aux Nympheas” has also become the most expensive artwork ever sold in Europe by Christie’s. It has been seen in public just once in the past 80 years.
Other artists’ work such as Edgar Degas’s pastel of ballet dancers “Danseuse a la Barre” sold for $26.3 Million and Natalia Goncharova’s “Les Fleurs” sold for $10.8 Million.
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