Sotheby’s to auction Claude Monet view of Venice with £20m-30m estimate
Paintings by the great Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926) are not especially rare at auction. However, while depictions of waterlilies and scenes of Paris appear at most major sales series, the artist’s views of Venice emerge only occasionally.
Monet visited Venice only once, arriving in October 1908 and declaring the canalled city “too beauti…