Claude Monet Paints the World Alive | Sotheby's

“I want to paint like a bird sings,” Claude Monet once stated. In this episode of Expert Voices, Simon Shaw describes Monet’s direct and unmediated response to his subject matter. In The Islands in Port-Villez, one can feel just that – Monet sitting on his boat on the seine, absorbing his surroundings. The Islands in Port-Villez was sold for $4,618,000 at Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening auction (28 October 2020, New York).