Monet’s ‘Meules à Giverny’ Is Coming to Sotheby’s for the 150th Anniversary of Impressionism

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, the 19th-century art style defined by strong brushstrokes and ordinary subjects in open-air settings. To mark the occasion, Sotheby's is auctioning one of Claude Monet’s atmospheric haystacks—a favored motif of the artist and an iconic image in the art movement.

Painted in 1893, Monet’s Meules à Giverny will be sold next month with an estimate above $30 million. “With his haystacks, the revolutionary ideas and techniques that initially...