クリスティーズさんのインスタグラム動画 - (クリスティーズInstagram)「Claude Monet’s ‘Le bassin aux nymphéas’ One of the most iconic, universal and enduring motifs of 20th Century art, Monet’s Nymphéas series reflects the dawn of a new modern age of painting. Powerful and timeless, ‘Le bassin aux nymphéas’ captures the dynamism and beauty of nature’s transience, exploring the ephemeral atmosphere, seasonal blooms, watery depths and glimmering reflections of light of Claude Monet’s famed lily pond in Giverny. Created as he was working on his famed, panoramic, Grandes décorations that now don the curvilinear walls of the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, the sheer scale of Le bassin aux nymphéas generates a similarly absorptive and profound encounter, preempting the great canvases of the American Abstract Expressionist generation. A work of this scale and quality has not come to auction since a canvas in the historic May 2018 sale of The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller achieved the record price for a Nymphéas painting, at $84.7 million. Christie’s is proud to present ‘Le bassin aux nymphéas’, one of the artist’s monumental canvases from his celebrated water lily series which has remained in private hands for over fifty years, as the leading highlight of the 20th Century Evening Sale on 9 November in New York. Learn more about this masterpiece via our Link in Bio! 20th Century Evening Sale | 9 November