Monet sold for impressionist record of $US110.7Mn at auction. (Up from $2.5Mn in 1986)

Un tableau de Monet vendu 110,7 millions de dollars aux enchères à New York

Il s’agit d’un record pour l’artiste lors d’une vente aux enchères. It makes a record at auction for Monet.

Une toile de la série des \"Meules\" du peintre français Claude Monet a été acquise, le 14 mai 2019, à New York pour 110,7 millions de dollars.
Une toile de la série des “Meules” du peintre français Claude Monet a été acquise, le 14 mai 2019, à New York pour 110,7 millions de dollars. (BENNO SCHWINGHAMMER / DPA / AFP). A work from the “Stacks” series by French painter Monet that changed hands on 14 May 2019 in New York for 110.7 million dollars.

This is the first time an impressionist broke through the symbolic threshold of $100 Mn.  A work from the “Stacks” series by French painter Claude Monet that changed hands on 14 May 2019 in New York for 110.7 million dollars, (€98.7Mn), at a Sotheby’s sale.

Il s’agit d’un record pour l’artiste lors d’une vente aux enchères, pour un montant parmi les dix plus élevés jamais atteints en enchères. Le prix comprend la commission et les frais. La toile de 72 cm sur 92 fait partie d’une série peinte par Monet durant l’hiver 1890-1891 dans sa maison de Giverny, en Normandie.

This is a record for the artist achieved at an auction, for a figure among the top ten in the world. It is assumed the commission and charges are included in the auction price. The work is 72 x 92 cms forms part of a series painted by Monet during winter 1890-1891 at his house in Givernie, Normandy.

“C’est un enchantement” “It is delightful”

Une autre de ces “Meules” avait été vendue en novembre 2016 par la maison Christie’s à New York pour 81,4 millions de dollars. Tout comme cet exemplaire, le tableau adjugé mardi représente une meule de foin au crépuscule. “Nous pensons et je crois que les gens qui se retrouvent face à elle seraient d’accord, que c’est un exemple encore plus beau” que celui vendu en 2016, avait expliqué Julian Dawes, responsable des ventes de soirée pour l’impressionnisme et l’art moderne, lors de la présentation de la vente. “Même quand vous vous tenez à dix mètres, c’est un enchantement”, avait-il insisté. “Vous ne pouvez pas détourner le regard.”

Another “Stacks” was sold in November 2016 by Christie’s in New York for 81.4 Mn dollars. Like Tuesday’s Monet, this other work was a Hay stack at twilight (dusk).”We think and believe that people who are attracted to these works will agree that the most recent example, sold on Tuesday, is more beautiful than the 2016 sale, said Julian Dawes, the chief auctioneer for impressionism and modern art, during the sales presentation. “If you view it from ten metres it is simply delightful”, he insisted. “You cannot avert your gaze”.  

Le propriétaire qui avait mis le tableau en vente, un collectionneur anonyme, l’avait acquis en 1986 lors d’une vente chez Christie’s à New York pour 2,5 millions de dollars seulement. Il a indiqué à Sotheby’s qu’une partie du produit de la vente serait reversé à des oeuvres de charité.

The owner who put the painting up for sale, who is an anonymous collector, acquired the  work at Christie’s New York in 1986 for only $2.5 Mn. He indicated to Sotheby’s that some of the proceeds of the sale would be shared among selected charities.

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