ID 1163380
Lot 33 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Estimate value
£ 5 500 000 – 8 500 000
Prairie fleurie à Giverny
signed and dated ‘Claude Monet 90’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ½ x 36 ¼ in. (65 x 92 cm.)
Painted in Giverny in 1890
Provenance
The American Art Association, New York; their sale, The American Art Association, New York, 10 April 1900, lot 67.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale, until at least 1949.
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York.
Edward J. Hudson, Houston, by 1967 and probably until 1987.
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1990.
Literature
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, 1887-1898, Peintures, Lausanne & Paris, 1979, no. 1248, p. 130 (illustrated p. 131).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Supplément aux peintures, dessins et pastels, Lausanne, 1991, no. 1248, p. 47.
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Nos. 969-1595, Cologne, 1996, no. 1248, p. 476 (illustrated p. 475).
Exhibited
Brooklyn, Pratt Institute, Claude Monet, February - March 1903.
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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