The great centuries and the spirit of the collections sale by Me David Gelly for the Osenat Versailles house in which fifty three lots by Bernard Boutet de Monvel (1881 – 1949) appeared, including lot 423, STUDY OF THREE RESERVOIRS 1932, watercolor on monogrammed paper lower left, 35.7 x 24.3 cm, sold for 600,000 euros.

The record won by this rare watercolor gave rise to several press articles