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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection Source

1 Lot Sold

Claude Monet

French, 1840–1926

Water Lilies

Date: 1906
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 89.9 × 94.1 cm (35 3/8 × 37 1/16 in.); Framed: 103.2 × 107 × 5.8 cm (40 5/8 × 42 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
Inscription: Signed and dated lower right
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Price realised £34,600,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Spring Evening Sale, 14 May 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

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B Catalogue note

Provenance

The artist's estate
Private collection, Paris
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Nymphéas exhibition, 1909, no. 27

Literature

Wildenstein, Monet: catalogue raisonné, no. 1684

Condition

Unlined. Minor stable craquelure in the denser passages of the lily pads, consistent with the artist's technique.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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