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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 04:40, 22 September 2013: 3,256 × 2,064 (1.06 MB): Wmpearl {{Information |Description=''Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows'' by Claude Monet, c. 1916-19, oil on canvas |Source={own} |Date=c. 1916-19 |Author=Claude Monet |Permission= |other_versions= }} Category:1910s paintings by Claude Monet [[...
Weeping Willow by Claude Monet, 1918 Weeping Willow, 1918-19, a similar setting, in a private collection. Weeping Willow is a 1918 oil painting by Claude Monet which depicts a weeping willow tree growing at the edge of his water garden pond in Giverny, France. It is exhibited at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio. [1]
On 19 June 2007, one of Monet's Water Lily paintings sold for £18.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in London. [14] On 24 June 2008 another of his Water Lily paintings, Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas, sold for almost £41 million at Christie's in London, almost double the estimate of £18 to £24 million.
Salix alba, the white willow, is a species of willow native to Europe and western and central Asia. [2] [3] The name derives from the white tone to the undersides of the leaves. It is a medium to large deciduous tree growing up to 10–30 m tall, with a
Salix × sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma', or Weeping Golden Willow, is the most popular and widely grown weeping tree in the warm temperate regions of the world. It is an artificial hybrid between S. alba 'Vitellina' and S. babylonica. The first parent provides the frost hardiness and the golden shoots and the second parent the strong weeping habit.
'Tortuosa' is an upright tree with twisted and contorted branches, marketed as corkscrew willow. Yet other weeping willow cultivars are derived from interspecific Salix hybrids, including S. babylonica in their parentage. [6] The most widely grown weeping willow cultivar is Salix × sepulcralis 'Chrysocoma', with bright yellowish branchlets. [8 ...
2008 - Christie's, London, June 2008, $80,451,178 becoming an auction record for a painting by Claude Monet, and the second highest price for a work of art in Europe. It was sold on 24 June 2008 at Christie's London auction rooms for £40.9m,[1] a world record for a Monet painting.[2]
The highest known price paid for an artwork by a living artist was for Jasper Johns's 1958 painting Flag. Its 2010 private sale price was estimated to be about US$110 million ($154 million in 2023 dollars). All-time This is a list of highest prices ever paid—at auction or private sale—for an artwork by an artist living at time of sale. Adjusted price (in millions of USD) Original price (in ...