Monet Haystacks painting sells for record $110.7m – BBC News

A painting by Claude Monet has been equipped for $110.7m (£85.7m), a brand contemporary world file for a piece by the French artist.

Monet carried out the oil painting in 1890 as section of his Meules (Haystacks) series, depicting rural lifestyles shut to his house in the Normandy location.

The sale shall be the first time an Impressionist painting equipped for bigger than $100m.

It was last auctioned in 1986, when it fetched magnificent $2.5m.

Till then it had been in the palms of 1 household – who equipped the share straight from the artist’s vendor – for just about a century.

A Sotheby’s press free up said the painting is now the ninth-most costly work ever equipped at public sale.

Its purchaser reportedly beat 5 other bidders on the sale in New York. Sotheby’s didn’t name the contemporary owner.

Monet’s Haystacks series had 25 paintings, the bulk of which hold in art galleries around the globe.

This is one among finest four of his works to head under the hammer this century.

Nymphéas en fleur was previously potentially the costliest Monet painting, selling for $84.7m in Might most likely even just 2018.