Claude Monet’s Haystack Painting Could Fetch Over $30m at Sotheby’s New York – Art Market Insights
One of Claude Monet’s iconic paintings, “Meules à Giverny” (1893), will be going up for auction at Sotheby’s New York next month, coinciding with the sesquicentennial of the first Impressionist show in Paris. The painting is expected to sell for over $30m and has a rich history of being exclusively held in US collections since it was first acquired by American landscape painter Dwight Blaney in 1895. This rare piece by Monet, featuring a haystack in the French countryside, will be on display in New York starting 3 May.
In addition to “Meules à Giverny,” Sotheby’s will also be auctioning off works by other renowned artists such as Camille Pissarro, Childe Hassam, and Pablo Picasso. Notably, Monet’s painting “Impression, Sunrise” (1872) lent its name to the Impressionist movement, and a similar haystack painting by Monet, “Meules” (1890), set a record selling for $110.7m five years ago at Sotheby’s New York.
Another Monet masterpiece, “Bennecourt” (1887), will also be part of the upcoming auction, along with a rare Picasso painting and works by Pissarro and Hassam. Christie’s will feature a major work by Monet, “Moulin de Limetz” (1888), with an estimated selling price of $18m to $25m, as well as paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat with eight-figure estimates. The art market is buzzing with excitement as these prestigious pieces hit the auction block in New York this May.
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