2014 Event 'Nympheas', a painting in Claude Monet's 'Water Lilies' series, is auctioned today for a price of $54 million; this is only the second-highest price paid for a Monet - another painting in the series sold in 2008 for $80.3 million at auction 2013 Event Investigators on the case of the October 2012 Kunsthal gallery theft of paintings by Picasso, Matisse and Monet, discover paint, canvas and nails in the oven of a woman whose son has been charged with the crime 1985 Event Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's and 2 Renoir's 1926 Death Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies at 86 1926 Death Claude Monet, French Artist 1840 Birthday Claude Monet, France, impressionist, Water Lilies