Musée d’Orsay · 1872
Régates à Argenteuil
Claude Monet
Monet paints sailboats and their reflections as one continuous surface of broken colour, treating the water itself — not the boats — as the real subject of the scene.
Why it matters
Monet paints sailboats and their reflections as one continuous surface of broken colour, treating the water itself — not the boats — as the real subject of the scene.
Look closer
Compare the sharp white triangle of a sail with its blurred, rippling reflection below it — Monet paints the same shape twice, once solid and once dissolved.
Painted at Argenteuil, the riverside town just outside Paris that Monet made into the unofficial birthplace of Impressionist boating scenes.
Value context
ELYIO places this work in an indicative editorial context of €32–44 million.
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