Claude Monet’s ‘Moulin de Limetz’ Could Fetch $25 Million at Auction¹

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The 1888 work depicts² a grain mill on the River Epte near the artist’s home in Giverny, France.

When Claude Monet was in his early 40s, he moved his family to Giverny, a village in northern France. He had only recently discovered the town when he saw it from the window of a train. The artist, a founder³ of the Impressionist movement, was struck by the area, which would inspire some of his most famous works.

Moulin de Limetz is jointly⁴ owned by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the heirs of collector Ethel B. Atha. Atha bequeathed the painting to the museum as a partial gift in 1986. Her family owns one-third of the work, while the museum owns two-thirds.

Next month, the artwork he produced—Moulin de Limetz (The Mill at Limetz)—will go on sale at a Christie’s auction in New York, where it’s expected to sell for between $18 million and $25 million.