- Two significant Claude Monet paintings, Nympheas and a rare portrait of his first wife Camille, are set to be auctioned at Sotheby's in London this month.
- Nympheas, painted in 1907, is expected to sell for between £30 million and £40 million, marking the highest estimate ever for a Monet work at auction in Europe.
- The rare 1870 portrait, Camille assise sur la plage a Trouville, depicting his wife on the Normandy coast, is expected to achieve £7 million to £10 million.
- Sotheby's highlights that the pair "encapsulate both the origins and culmination of Monet’s revolutionary artistic practice, drawing on two of his most enduring sources of inspiration: his water garden at Giverny, and his beloved wife Camille."
- Both works, previously held in major American collections, will be presented in London for the first time at the Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Evening auction on 24 June.
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