The painting "haystacks" by Claude Monet sold for $RB 110.7 million
ARTinvestment.RU   16 мая 2019

This is a record price not only for painting by Monet, but also for all the Impressionists for public auction

This is one of the best works in the famous series of Monet landscape with haystacks and one of 8 works of the series still in private hands. The rest of the 17 paintings with haystacks sold around the world museums such as the Metropolitan, d'orsay, art Institute of Chicago and the Pushkin Museum named after Pushkin.

Top-лот Sotheby's evening sale could boast of a brilliant provenance: bought directly from Monet's dealer Paul Durand-Рюэля in 1892, the wife of the Chicago millionaire Potter Palmer Bertha Honore Palmer. In the collection of Palmer, according to some, was up to 80 works of Claude Monet, and Berthe honoré special preference to the series – at one time, she bought eight works with stacks, four landscape with poplars, three views of Rouen Cathedral, and three landscapes of the Seine the morning. What-то work Bertha Palmer subsequently resold, but the "haystacks", setting a record at Sotheby's, remained in her collection until her death, and then came in meeting her son. Monet's work belonged to the collection of Palmer until 14 may 1986: on this day, she first came to the auction and been sold for $2.53 million

Exactly 33 years later, on may 14, 2019, in the struggle of the six candidates of the hammer price painting "haystack" has grown to a staggering $97 million, and with the auction house Commission – up to $110,747 million Is 44 times more than the previous sales price.

the Painting "haystacks" became the most expensive impressionist work, sold at public auction, and, of course, will be included in our rating of the most expensive works of art in the world (fall 8th). The previous auction record for a Monet was $84.7 million: so in 2018 was paid for his work from another famous series of images of water lilies on a pond in Giverny.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: artdaily.com, sothebys.com, www.artinvestment.ru