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It’s raining Monet: Five exceptional works from the same collection to be offered at Sotheby’s in March

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It’s raining Monet: Five exceptional works from the same collection to be offered at Sotheby’s in March

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY EVENING AUCTION

SOTHEBY’S LONDON, 2 MARCH 2022

LONDON, 18 January 2022 – This March, Sotheby’s will present five works by Claude Monet painted during a formative fifteen-year period during his career, charting the artist’s pivot from an Impressionist painter to the father of Abstract Expressionism. Monet x Monet | A Distinguished American Collection paints a picture of how Monet approached the concept of capturing colour and light on canvas in an increasingly modern and abstract way, through a range of key motifs. From a flower-filled canvas that prefigures Monet’s celebrated late water lily paintings, to a rhythmic depiction of loosely bundled together grainstacks, and two landscapes painted under different weather conditions at opposing ends of the seasons, the works – all of which pre-date 1900 – encapsulate the ‘modern’ Monet that had such a profound influence on later artists and movements. With a combined estimate in the region of $50 million (£35 million), the paintings will be offered in Sotheby’s Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction in London on 2 March 2022.

Helena Newman, Chairman of Sotheby’s Europe and Worldwide Head of Impressionist & Modern Art, said: “With Picasso and Van Gogh, Monet is one of the most sought-after artists in the world today. In recent years the energy around him has taken on an even more renewed vigour, both in the global exhibition arena and among collectors all around the world – particularly in Asia where he is a beloved figure. In charting the progression towards his great waterlily paintings, these five stunning works brilliantly articulate the story of Monet as the father of modern art.”

 

Simon Shaw, Sotheby’s Vice Chairman, Fine Arts, said: “Monet was a key influence on the abstract movements of the 20th century and long after his death in 1926, he remains a strong and relevant force. Tellingly, in the 1950s, with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, The Museum of Modern Art acquired a water lily for their collection – this symbiotic relationship has continued to be explored in the years that followed, with the Musée Marmottan’s ground-breaking ‘Monet & Abstraction’ exhibition in 2010, and currently in the Helen Frankenthaler exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.”

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