Claude Monet’s Les Peupliers, one of the most celebrated of the artist’s great series of works from his years in Giverny, sold for $22,482,500 at New York's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 4 May 2011. Painted en plein air during the summer of 1891, the work is the largest of the artist’s paintings devoted to a picturesque arrangement of poplar trees. Offered in pristine condition from an important private collection, the painting sold to a private American collector. (RT: 2:25)
5 May 2011Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
4 May 2011 New York, Rockefeller Plaza.
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