Monet's water lilies up for sale

Inspiration: Nymphèas is one of many paintings of the water lilies in Monet's garden at Giverny

One of Claude Monet's water-lilies paintings that has not been seen in public for more than 70 years is to be sold at auction.

Nymphèas is expected to make up to £15million at Sotheby's on 19 June.

Melanie Clore, who co-chairs the auctioneer's Impressionist and modern art department, said: "This is by far the best work by the artist to have appeared on the market in recent times."

Nymphèas was bought from Michel Monet, the artist's son, in the Twenties by a French collector and has stayed in the same family for 80 years.

The painting has not been seen in public since an exhibition in Paris in 1936. Like the rest of the waterlilies series, it was produced in the garden of Monet's home at Giverny in northern France.

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