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Claude Monet
1840-1926 · Impressionism
The club deal
- Status
- Fundraising open
- Minimum per member
- USD 100,000 (US residents: USD 200,000 individuals, USD 1,000,000 entities)
- Fundraising target
- 15,000,000 USD
- Selection window
- 12 months, with return of the capital if no suitable work is found
- Vehicle
- a dedicated SPV for this artist
- Expected exit
- between 3 and 7 years, through auction or private sale
How the club deal for each artist works · Costs
If no suitable work is found within 12 months, the capital paid in is returned.
Price range of the works the club looks for
from 3,000,000 to 70,000,000 USD (3-70 million for major paintings, over 100 million for masterpieces of the series)
Market liquidity: high
Biography
Claude Monet, born in Paris in 1840, was the central figure of Impressionism; his 1872 Impression, soleil levant gave the movement its name. He painted light and atmosphere in serial motifs, haystacks, poplars, Rouen Cathedral, London's Thames, and above all the water lilies of his garden at Giverny, where he worked until his death in 1926. For the market Monet is among the most liquid nineteenth and twentieth century names: series paintings come to auction regularly, attract buyers from the United States, Europe and Asia, and set a clear price hierarchy by motif and date. His record is Meules (1890), sold for about 110.7 million dollars in 2019, and late Nymphéas canvases routinely exceed 40 million dollars.
Auction record
110,747,000 USD: Meules, 1890, Sotheby's, New York, 2019-05-14 (source)
Recent auction results
- 56,000,000 USD: Iris, 1924-25, Sotheby's, Parigi, 2026-10-22 (source)
- 45,480,000 USD: Nymphéas, 1907, Christie's, New York, 2025-11-17 (source)
- 4,800,000 USD: Printemps à Giverny, effet d'après-midi, 1885, Christie's, Hong Kong, 2025-09-26 (source)
- 6,500,000 USD: Port-Coton, Le Lion, 1886, Sotheby's, New York, 2025-05-13 (source)
- 42,900,000 USD: Peupliers au bord de l'Epte, crépuscule, 1891, Christie's, New York, 2025-05-12 (source)
- 65,500,000 USD: Nymphéas, 1914-17, Sotheby's, New York, 2024-11-18 (source)
Market data: public auction results with date, auction house and source, the same data as Unicorn Art Watch.
Museums
- Musée d'Orsay, Parigi
- Musée de l'Orangerie, Parigi
- Musée Marmottan Monet, Parigi
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sources
- Sotheby's, Meules, lotto 8, 14 maggio 2019
- Wikipedia, List of most expensive paintings
- The Art Newspaper, Iris a Parigi, ottobre 2026
- HENI News, Christie's 20th Century Evening Sale, 17 novembre 2025
- The Art Newspaper, Christie's New York, maggio 2025
- The Art Newspaper, Sotheby's Modern, maggio 2025
- The Art Newspaper, Sotheby's Sydell Miller, novembre 2024
- The Value, Christie's Hong Kong autunno 2025
- The Art Newspaper, collezione Joe Lewis, Sotheby's Londra giugno 2026
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