11月3日，伦敦佳士得拍卖公司将在美国纽约拍卖法国印象派画家克劳德·莫奈的一幅有关英国国会大厦的油画作品，莫奈一共创作了19幅有关英国国会大厦的油画作品，这次拍卖的是其中最重要的一幅。这副画创作于19与20世纪之交，作品的拍卖价格有望达到1000万美元。

One of Claude Monet's most important paintings has gone on public display for the first time in 100 years.

The Impressionist 's painting of the Houses of Parliament is to be sold at Christie's in New York on 3 November.

The work, titled Londres, le Parlement, effet de soleil dans le brouillard, will be displayed at Christie's, in London, on Wednesday.

It is expected to fetch up to ￡10m at the Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale.

Monet painted the piece at the turn of the 20th Century while staying in London.

He created only 19 oils of the Houses of Parliament, and 11 of those were shown in Monet's 1904 exhibition of views of the Thames in Paris.

Almost all of the paintings were bought at the exhibition by collectors of the day.

The painting to be sold at Christie's is considered one of the most important of the 19.

Only five of the set remain in private hands while the others are in museums across the world, including Moscow's Pushkin Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago.

It is the third Parliament painting to be offered at auction by Christie's.