“The Mill at Limetz,” has never been to market, and was first seen in more than a century at an Art Institute of Chicago show in 2020
The descendants of the influential U.S. art collectors Bertha and Potter Palmer are selling a painting by Claude Monet at Sotheby’s next month that has been in the family for more than 130 years.
The provenance of the piece is one of its most interesting aspects. The couple who purchased it were “very much responsible for making Monet a household name in the United States,” says Allegra Bettini, head of the modern evening sale at Sotheby’s. They owned more than 90 works by the artist, and had an “exceptional” collection of impressionism that included works by Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, which they displayed in their Chicago home.
“This picture is all about this masterful play of light and dark achieved on the surface of the water,” says Allegra Bettini, head of the modern evening sale at Sotheby’s. “That’s all thanks to Monet’s very careful and deliberate selection of pigments and this textural symphony that he’s created by building layer upon layer to create this optical effect that almost sort of vibrates and does sort of shimmer in person. It comes to life in a way that only the best works by the artist do.
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