A Monet painting, unseen for 86 years, is bequeathed to a US gallery by a reclusive heiress
Part of the artist’s Water Lilies series, worth $25m (£15m), was left to the Corcoran Gallery by Huguette Clark, who died last month aged 104. The painting has been out of public view for 86 years.
The Corcoran has a gallery which bears the name of her father Senator William A Clark, who died the same year the painting was created in 1925.
Ms Clark bequeathed a proportion of her $400m (£250m) fortune to the arts.
Graham Spicer, aka ‘Gramilano’, is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
