00:00Throughout his life, he painted around 200 water lilies,
00:29but these eight paintings are literally the beginning of the water lilies.
00:34And what the water lilies do,
00:36they break boundaries between figuration and abstractions.
00:40Four of these paintings are in prestigious museums around the world,
00:44and only four are in private hands.
00:46The four in private hands, this is the first ever one to be auctioned.
00:50It's been fresh to the market,
00:52it's been hidden from the market for the past 125 years.
01:10It's the first time we're bringing Claude Monet's water lilies to Asia.
01:13It's never been sold in Asia before,
01:15and I hope we're going to have a wider audience, an international audience.
01:19The estimate is 25 million US dollars to 30 million US dollars,
01:24and I hope we're going to break records.
02:00It's a celebration of colours.
02:02He arrives in Paris, he spends two years in Paris
02:05in search of the artists who have already been in Paris for a long time,
02:09like Claude Monet, like Degas, like Renoir,
02:12and what does he do?
02:13He meets colour.
02:15So this painting is actually a celebration of colour,
02:17of Paris, of impression, of light.
02:29The purpose of this auction is to celebrate art, to celebrate artists,
02:33and to show, actually, that art doesn't have boundaries.
02:37Very much we say when the East meets the West,
02:40but at the same time the artists don't think that way.
02:42So we put in one exhibition Claude Monet,
02:45who inspired very much Zawuki,
02:47who was at the same time in New York,
02:50and we put in another exhibition of Claude Monet,
02:53who inspired very much Degas,
02:55and we put in another exhibition of Claude Monet,
02:58who was at the same time in New York,
03:00and then we have George Condor, we have René Magritte,
03:03we have Sagnu, so it's an accumulation of great minds
03:08creating great paintings.
03:28This is right in front of you.
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