Other highlights of the sales include one of Monet's monumental paintings of the lily pond in his garden at Giverny, which are among the most iconic images in 20th-century art.
They also contracted a touch of the Impressionism that had drifted down from France. (A good many Americans who went to Florence also made their way to Claude Monet's Giverny, where they acquired the dappling method at its source.) From the Yanks, the Italians picked up some tips on technique coming out of the newly robust art milieus of Boston, New York and Philadelphia.