Le Bassin aux Nymphéas
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| Le Bassin aux Nymphéas |
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| Claude Monet , 1919 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 100.4 x 201 cm |
| Privately owned |
Le Bassin aux Nymphéas (Eng. Water Lily Pond ) is a painting by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet from 1919 from his series Water Lilies, which includes around 250 works . It was created in Giverny at the time of Monet's almost complete blindness in oil on canvas and measures 100.4 cm × 201 cm.
In the garden of his house, where he also died, there were several types of water lilies , which he reproduced in various of his paintings. In the Bassin aux Nymphéas , different shades of green of the aquatic plants predominate with occasional rising water lily flowers that grow on a strip of bluish water.
On June 24, 2008, the work, which had only been shown to the public once since 1926 (at an auction of Sotheby’s in New York in 1971), was sold at Christie's in London for 40.9 million British pounds (51.6 million pounds sterling) . Euro ) was auctioned to a private person, which was a record for a picture by Monet.
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- ↑ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Water_Lilies_by_Claude_Monet
- ↑ Record sale for Monet masterpiece , BBC News, June 8, 2008, accessed August 24, 2011