(ANSA) - NEW YORK, MAY 19 - Venice pushes up the prices of a Monet: in its first appearance at auctions, a 1908 view of the Grand Canal and Santa Maria della Salute was sold for 56.6 million dollars, becoming the Venetian view highest paid artist at an auction and, more generally, the most expensive Italian view ever auctioned.
The painting combines a long series of Monet's paintings that have sold for over $ 50 million.
The artist spent three months in Venice in 1908. Many of the paintings from this period, painted from the steps of Palazzo Barbarod where Monet and his wife Alice stayed in the city for the first two weeks, are in important museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Fine Art Museums of SanFrancisco.
That trip produced 37 paintings that capture the incomparable magic of Venetian views.
The previous record for a Venetian Monet was 36.5 million dollars, a view of the Doge's Palace sold by Sotheby's in 2019. For an Italian view, the record was a Roman Turner from Mount Aventine, also beaten by Sotheby's in London for 47, 6 million dollars in 2014. (ANSA).