Le Bassin aux Nympheas "US $ 80.5 million

Le Bassin aux Nympheas "US $ 80.5 million

Painting Claude Monet Le Bassin aux Nympheas sold for $ 80.5 million in the US auction in London, England. It also broke the record for the most expensive painting by the same artist.


Oscar Claude Monet was born 14 November 1840 in Paris, France, Wafat5 December 1926 (age 86) in Giverny, France. The French painter citizen adherents flow impressionism.

Early April 1851 Monet entered the Le Havre school. He was soon famous caricatures carchoalnya. In June 1861 Monet joined the forces of Light Cavalry Regiment of the first Africans in Algeria for two years of a seven-year period of military service.
Future military wajig have in live, then back to the world of Claude Monet painting, which joined the studio of Charles Gleyre in Paris, and then met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Then they together develop new techniques in art by painting based on the effects of reflected light caught the eye, the basic concept of the beginning of the flow of Impressionism as we know.

Many of the best work produced at the time Monet lived in Argenteuil, a village on the Seine near Paris between the years 1871 to 1878.