Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Les Peupliers
oil on canvas 45¾ x 28½ in. (116.2 x 72.2 cm.)
Painted in 1891
Price Realized: $22,482,500
Monet, Picasso and de Vlaminck lead Christie’s sale On May 4th 2011, Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art evening auction achieved $156 million. Three works sold for over 20 million: Claude Monet’s ‘Les Peupliers’, Maurice de Vlaminck’s ‘Paysage de banlieue’ and Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les femmes d’Alger, version L’.]]>
May 5th 2011, source: Christie’s / theartwolf
Claude Monet’s ‘Les Peupliers’ is an excellent impressionist painting in pristine condition, and it was sold to an American private collector for $22,482,500. Christie’s explained that the work was painted en plein air during the summer of 1891, adding that it is the largest of the artist’s series of poplar trees paintings. The work had been sold in 2000 for just $7 million.
The same price (and an auction record for the artist) was paid by Acquavella LLC for Maurice de Vlaminck’s ‘Paysage de banlieue’, a very strong Fauvist landscape executed in 1905. Pablo Picasso’s ‘Les femmes d’Alger, version L’ was the third work to sell for over $20 million, and it was purchased by an anonymous collector for $21,362,500.
Henri Matisse ‘La fenêtre ouverte’, a 1911 oil over pencil on canvas, sold for $15,762,500; and Maximilien Luce’s ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’, sold for $4,226,500, a new world auction record for the artist.
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