On 17 November 2026, Phillips New York will offer Claude Monet's La Maison dans les roses as lot 3 of its Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale. The canvas, oil on canvas measuring 88.6 x 100 cm, was painted at Giverny during the summer of 1925.
According to Phillips, it stands among the final canvases Monet completed before his death in 1926, and the art historian Daniel Wildenstein called it the artist's "swan song", a farewell to his beloved home and rose garden. It is the first and largest work of his second Maisons series; related paintings from the series are held by the Albertina, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Stedelijk and the Musée Marmottan Monet.
The painting also records something personal. Phillips notes that it traces the fortunes of Monet's failing and recovering vision after his cataract surgeries. The house is still there, framed by roses, but the flowers and brushstrokes press it almost to the edge of the visible. Every inch of the surface is worked.
That late, all-over quality is why painters and critics kept returning to Monet's final decade. Phillips' own essay places the work beside Joan Mitchell, who lived near Giverny in Vétheuil and once said, "I like late Monet, but not early."
A hundred years after it was painted, the house is still hidden in the roses. Look closely: can you find it?
The Wall Art Gallery
Sources:
- Phillips lot page, Claude Monet, La Maison dans les roses, lot 3, Modern & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, New York: https://www.phillips.com/detail/claude-monet/234077
- Phillips sale page (begins 17 November 2026, 4:30 PM ET): https://www.phillips.com/auction/NY010726
- Phillips Editorial, "Monet and Mitchell: Alike in Difference," 2 November 2026: https://www.phillips.com/article/claude-monet-joan-mitchell-auction-new-york-november-2026