Haystacks

A climate activist was arrested on June 1 for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris to draw attention to global warming, a police source told AFP.

Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to protest fossil fuel extraction on Oct. 23, but caused no damage to the artwork.

The most recent painting to make the top 10 was Claude Monet’s “Meules”, which sold at Sotheby’s auction house for $110.7 million

A Claude Monet painting from his celebrated "Meules" (Haystacks) series fetched $110.7 million in New York on May 14 in an auction record for the French Impressionist master.

Oil paintings by impressionist master Claude Monet are expected to be stars of the spring auction season in New York, where Sotheby's believes they could fetch as much as $110 million.