Monet’s ‘Prairie’ painting sells for $16M
February 5, 2009
Claude Monet’s Dans La Prairie,
an oil painting of the artist’s wife Camille reading in a field of wildflowers, has sold for $16 million at auction in London.
The BBC said the sale fell short of the artwork’s estimated price of $22 million at Christie’s sale of Impressionist and Modern art.
Monet’s La Promenade d’Argenteuil,
which was expected to go for $7.3 million, didn’t find a buyer, the British broadcaster said.
Source: upi
