The club’s board voted to sell the painting in Dec. 2020.
A small Claude Monet painting that had been at The Union League Club of Chicago for almost 130 years is set to go on the auction block Nov. 19.
Until recently, Monet’s “Pommiers en Fleurs,” (apple trees in blossom) had been on display just off the stairwell on the second floor.
It was among the most valuable paintings in the club’s extensive art collection — and the only Monet among works mostly devoted to American artists, said Frank DeVincentis, first vice president of the club’s board.
