Top 10 most expensive paintings of the French painter Claude Oscar Monet (1840-1926), one of the founders of impressionism.
Claude Monet occupies the third place in the ranking of the most expensive artists of the world on the basis of open auction sales for February 2015. The auction value of his 300 works included in 10,000 of the most expensive works of fine art in the world, is 2106,080 million$. Average cost of works of Monet 7,020 million.$.

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Auguste Renoir.Portrait of...

Nymphenburg Palace. The gallery of beauties.a Unique collection of portraits of the most attractive women of Bavaria. Mastermind behind the collection was made by king Ludwig I, and the executor made court painter and famous painter of his time — Karl Joseph stieler College. Loving the king personally argued the candidates regardless of the social status of the latter. For example, in the same row with Queen of Bavaria can be seen the daughter of a shoemaker Helena Sedlmayer. Meanwhile, one...

In 1893, Monet went to Giverny in Haute-Normandie region, 80 km North-West of Paris.Here in 1895-1905. he
wrote in his garden series of paintings" the Japanese bridge".It is only a small part of the famous series of Water lilies.But
distinguished by its unique combination of fragility and colors,dreaminess and depth of reflection.
Actually,Claude Monet broke with the help of the gardener,the Japanese garden,which,of course,could not be a place Japanese
bridges over the pond.They...

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Philosophy of the old East says that a hundred flowers – that all possible combinations of all possible shapes. Hundred flowersWonder? Look at these pictures. Try to count. And evaluate the painting of the East.
a Hundred flowers and a hundred worldsHundred tigersa Hundred dogsa Hundred birdsa Hundred deerone Hundred fisha Hundred bats (bats — a symbol of happiness)one Hundred girlsOne hundred horsesone Hundred cranesa Hundred sheepone Hundred childrenone Hundred elders

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