Monet work sold for $20.1 million
A painting from Claude Monet’s series on London’s Parliament building has sold at auction for $20.1 million.
“London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog,” painted in 1904, was purchased by Samir Traboulsi, a Lebanese financier, at Christie’s on Wednesday night. The Impressionist work, which depicts orange and red light piercing London’s fog, had been in the same family, that of Monet’s dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, for 100 years.
The sale of Impressionist and Modern art brought a total of $128.2 million in the first day of a two-day auction at Christie’s.
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