Claude Monet
1840-1926
Career Hihjlights
In May 1871 he left London to live in Zaandam, where he made 25 paintings. Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41.4 million. Le bassin aux nymphéas (from the water lilies series) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008, lot 19, for $71,892,376.34.