The owner or owners of the two Monets sold in Paris last week may have to wait a little longer to enjoy the works.
Both paintings, sold by Sotheby's for a combined $19.61 million, had not been seen in public for decades and are currently the subject of extensive loan requests.
His 1901 work Vetheuil, effet du matin, which went for $12.01 million, is expected to feature in a show at the Van der Heydt-Museum in Wuppertal, Germany, in 2027-28 before moving on to shows in Tokyo and Osaka in 2029-30.
It could be joined in Japan by Les Iles de Port-Villez which sold for $7.6 million at the sale in the French capital.
Regardless of their future movements, the sale was a success for Sotheby's making a total of $54.4 million and along with the following day’s sale of modern and contemporary art scoring a B- on the HENI Auction Index.
That is up from the C given to its most recent comparable sale by the index which uses more than 10 different metrics to measure success.
Research found the 157 lots consigned was more than double Sotheby’s most recent comparable sale in Paris though the total amount of money raised was down significantly.
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