{"id":15076,"date":"2014-06-26T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T11:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=15076"},"modified":"2023-12-11T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:00:25","slug":"monets-water-lilies-lead-sothebys-208-million-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2014\/06\/monets-water-lilies-lead-sothebys-208-million-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Monet\u2019s Water Lilies Lead Sotheby\u2019s $208 Million Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-06-23\/monet-s-water-lilies-sells-for-54-million-in-london.html\">Monet\u2019s Water Lilies Lead Sotheby\u2019s $208 Million Auction<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; the demand for those trophy paintings is still running high. \u00a0If you have the right material, the sale will do well. \u00a0In this case they did and of the 46 works offered, only 4 failed to find buyers. \u00a0The Monet below made\u00a0\u00a331.7M \u00a0($54M) on a \u00a320-\u00a330M estimate &#8212; just 4 years ago it failed to sell with an estimate of \u00a330-40M.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-06-23\/monet-s-water-lilies-sells-for-54-million-in-london.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"i3aaZ6MXVjuQ\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/i3aaZ6MXVjuQ.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claude Monet<br \/>\u201cNympheas\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monet\u2019s Water Lilies Lead Sotheby\u2019s $208 Million Auction\u00a0&#8211; the demand for those trophy paintings is still running high. \u00a0If you have the right material, the sale will do well. \u00a0In this case they did and of the 46 works offered, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2014\/06\/monets-water-lilies-lead-sothebys-208-million-auction\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-15076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","tag-auction-results"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monet\u2019s Water Lilies Lead Sotheby\u2019s $208 Million Auction<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2014\/06\/monets-water-lilies-lead-sothebys-208-million-auction\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monet\u2019s Water Lilies Lead Sotheby\u2019s $208 Million Auction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Monet\u2019s Water Lilies Lead Sotheby\u2019s $208 Million Auction\u00a0&#8211; 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