$84.6 million, sold via Christie's New York on May 8th, 2018 The water lilies in his pond were almost exclusively the center of his inspiration during this period.
Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 110,747,000 USD for MEULES, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2019. Claude Monet has been featured in articles for Daily Art Magazine, Bloomberg and ARTnews.
Consequently (and rarely amongst Claude Monet art), its value can only be guessed at. The work's value is between $50 million and $150 million.
The most expensive paintings in the world
The most expensive painting ever sold is the Salvator Mundi, the Saviour of the World in English, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
The famous water lily pond inspired Monet to create a colossal work composed of almost 300 paintings, over 40 of which were large format. Three tapestries were also woven from the Nymphéas paintings, thus affirming the decorative nature of these series.
The plant, called Nymphaea thermarum in Latin, isn't just tiny; it is also one of the rarest plants in the world. Nymphaea thermarum is the world's smallest water lily yet described, with the leaves measuring only one centimetre in diameter.
FULL SUN The Double Lilies, both Asiatic and Oriental, are the rarest of the lilies cultivated today. Few cultivars remain stable year after year.
The Mona Lisa is priceless. Any speculative price (some say over a billion dollars!) would probably be so high that not one person would be able or willing to purchase and maintain the painting. Moreover, the Louvre Museum would probably never sell it.
Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest ever insurance value for a painting. On permanent display at the Louvre in Paris, the Mona Lisa was assessed at US$100 million on 14 December 1962. Taking inflation into account, the 1962 value would be around US$970 million in 2022.
The Mona Lisa is one of the most valuable paintings in the world. It holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known painting insurance valuation in history at US$100 million in 1962, equivalent to $1 billion as of 2023.
The Impressionist paintings of water lilies (nymphéas) created by Claude Monet during the last thirty years of his life, are often considered by art critics to represent his finest work. They demonstrate his extraordinary skill at plein-air painting, his feeling for colour and appreciation of light.
The Water Lilies by Claude Monet | Musée de l'Orangerie.
One of Claude Monet's famous paintings of London's Charing Cross Bridge could realize $20 million to $30 million at Sotheby's evening auction of impressionist and modern art in New York on Nov. 12. The painting was one of the seminal London canvases Monet created during his trips to London from 1899 to 1905.
How much is 'Sunflowers' worth? When Van Gogh's own copy of the original version went on auction at Christie's, as much as 40 million dollars was paid to purchase it. Taking into account inflation, this painting would have cost $100m.
PARIS -- The 1878 Claude Monet painting 'Bouquet of Flowers' has been sold to an Italian businessman for $2.24 million, a record for a work of art auctioned in France. The oil painting by the French impressionist artist was sold Tuesday night in four minutes of bidding at the Drouot auction house.
Vincent Van Gogh's self-portrait sold for $71.5 million in 1990 and is one of the most valuable artworks today with an estimated worth of over $120 million.
It sold for $3 million. An oil painting titled “A Study for Saint Jerome,” far right, by artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck, is displayed during a media preview at Sotheby's New York, Friday Jan. 20, 2023, in New York. The painting sold for $3 million at auction.
The world's largest canvas painting has sold at a Dubai auction for almost 228 million dirham ($62 million), putting it among the most expensive artworks ever to go under the hammer. Measuring over 17,000 square feet, “The Journey of Humanity” is roughly equivalent in size to four NBA-regulation basketball courts.
The highest price for a piece of art by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. It was sold privately for what is thought to be $110 million USD ($137 million in 2021 dollars).
Picasso's 'La Gommeuse' oil on canvas painting worth $67.5 million. Among Pablo Picasso's famous paintings is La Gommeuse. Created between 1901 and 1902 during Picasso's Blue Period, this painting came to be worth $1.4 million in 1986. Since then, it saw a 5,600% value increase, landing it a $49.9 million price tag.
Portrait of Dr Paul Gachet (1890): $152 Million
Sold in 1990 for a whopping $83 million, Portrait of Dr Paul Gachet, painted in 1890, is the most expensive Van Gogh painting.
According to French historian Patrice de Moncan, “the Louvre, minus its contents, is worth a staggering $10.5 billion,” and its artworks and objects “have a likely MINIMUM value of $35 billion.” To put this into perspective, it would take someone with a $10 million annual salary 4,550 years to accumulate this wealth.
The Middlemist's Red camellia is considered the rarest flower in the world. Only two known examples are believed to exist, one in New Zealand and another one in England. The plant was brought from China to England in 1804 by John Middlemist.
The gloriosa lily is extremely beautiful, its long stamens surrounded by red-orange reflexed tepals, but the likely reason it's so expensive (up to $10 a stem) is because it's rare to find and difficult to harvest.
The simple reason why the Kadupul Flower is the champion of the most expensive flowers in the world list is: it is completely priceless. No amount of money could ever buy this flower. It is so rare and so frail that it lives for only a few hours, and then dies.