Sotheby’s sold a Claude Monet “Water Lilies” scene for $65.5 million on Monday, a solid start to a weeklong series of New ...

Claude Monet, Water Lilies (ca. 1914-17). Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Courtesy of Kimbell Art Museum. From 1890 to 1926, Monet would create more than 250 paintings of the water lilies.

The MFA’s newly reimagined Gallery 252, which is dedicated to Claude Monet’s work, has found its centerpiece in “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows” (1916-1919), a powerful work ...