ID 1163423
Lot 15 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Estimate value
£ 12 000 000 – 18 000 000
Matinée sur la Seine, temps net
signed and dated 'Claude Monet 97' (lower left)
oil on canvas
32 1⁄8 x 36 3⁄8 in. (81.6 x 92.4 cm.)
Painted in Giverny in 1897
Provenance
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist on 27 November 1901.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York, transferred by the above in December 1901.
Frederic Amory, Massachusetts, by whom acquired from the above on 28 March 1905.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 17 May 1978, lot 43.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.
Literature
W. Dewhurst, Impressionist Painting: Its Genesis and Development, London, 1904, p. xii (illustrated).
L. Werth, Claude Monet, Paris, 1928, pl. 49 (illustrated).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, 1887-1898, Peintures, Lausanne & Paris, 1979, no. 1480, p. 212 (illustrated p. 213).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. V, Supplément aux peintures, dessins et pastels, Lausanne, 1991, no. 1480, p. 51.
P. H. Tucker, Claude Monet, Life and Art, New Haven & London, 1995, pp. 158, 159, 163 & 164 (illustrated pl. 188, p. 163).
D. Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Nos. 969-1595, Cologne, 1996, no. 1480, p. 618 (illustrated).
Exhibited
(Possibly) Paris, Galerie Georges-Petit, Exposition Claude Monet, June 1898, p. 6⁄7.
New York, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, February 1902, no. 34.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, August 1911, no. 5.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Impressionists and Barbizon Schools, 1919 - 1920, pp. 59 & 65.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings, February - April 1990, no. 82, pl. 87, pp. 228 & 300 (illustrated p. 228); this exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Art Institute, May - August 1990 and London, Royal Academy of Arts, September - December 1990.
| Artist: | Oscar-Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Oscar-Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted |
| Art style: | Impressionism, Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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