Nearly a century after Claude Monet died at Giverny in 1926, his 1882 canvas Bord des falaises à Pourville (Cliffside at Pourville) is heading to auction at Christie's in Paris with an estimate of €11 million to €15 million ($12.67 million to $17.27 million). The 59-by-100-centimetre oil on canvas depicts the Normandy coastline in sweeping pastel hues, with loose, layered brushstrokes dissolving the boundaries between sea, sky and land. The painting comes from the collection of the Durand-Ruel family and will headline the sale Durand-Ruel, Generations of Vision. Paul Durand-Ruel was the dealer whose early support of the Impressionists helped turn the movement into a commercial success, and the 62-lot sale spans five generations of the family's collecting, including works by Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Loiseau, Moret and Picasso alongside Monet. The Pourville canvas is considered a significant early Monet: it is the twin of a painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's orbit that sold at Sotheby's in 2014 for about $9 million and now hangs at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam. Painted just before the artist's great series paintings of the 1890s, it already shows his obsession with shifting light and atmosphere. The collection will be exhibited at Christie's Paris from 16 to 21 October, ahead of the live auction on 22 October — timed to coincide with Art Basel Paris and framed as a tribute in the centenary year of Monet's death. With the top estimate at €15 million, the cliffside view is positioned as one of the headline lots of the Paris autumn season.