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Claude Monet’s Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute has gone under the hammer for 56.6 million dollars (£45 million), making it the most valuable view of Italy by any artist sold at auction.
Le Grand Canal is an oil on canvas painting by French Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840–1926). It is one of six paintings looking down the Grand Canal towards the Salute church . This Grand Canal series is in turn part of a larger series of paintings of Venice which Monet undertook during 1908 on his only visit to the city.
Monet painted 37 works of Venice which he began during his stay in the city in 1908. These include a series of canvases of the Grand Canal.He had the habit of studying the same subject in a varying light, at different times of the day, which resulted during his career in many distinct series, like for example the Water Lilies series, Poplar series, Rouen Cathedral series, Haystacks series and ...
The Grand Canal at the Church of the Salute (Italian: Il Canal Grande e la chiesa di Santa Maria della Salute) is an oil on canvas painting by Canaletto.It is a Rococo landscape painting, completed circa 1740.
Le Grand Canal: based on, or the evolution of, a 1965 painting of the same title 1989 Leipzig: 1989 Os Degredados (The Exiled) 1 2 3: dated 89; alt. date 1988 1989 Ressorts (Springs) oil on canvas, 97x136.5 cm not related to the 1988 painting of the same title 1989 Les Grands Amours (The Great Loves) oil on canvas, 105x107 cm 1989 Essor: 1: 1989
Canaletto's views always fetched high prices, and as early as the 18th century Catherine the Great and other European monarchs vied for his grandest paintings. The record price paid at auction for a Canaletto is £18.6 million for View of the Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto, set at Sotheby's in London in July 2005.
The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute; The Grand Canal in Venice (Bellotto) The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola; Le Grand Canal (Monet series) The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge from the South; The Grand Canal (Streeton)
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