ID 1209433
Lot 8 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Estimate value
$ 18 000 000 – 25 000 000
Monet, C.
Moulin de Limetz
signed and dated 'Claude Monet 88' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 3/8 x 28 5/8 in. (92.5 x 72.8 cm.)
Painted in 1888
Provenance
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, 20 July 1891).
Lucien Sauphar, Paris (acquired from the above, 9 June 1902); Estate sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 17 March 1936, lot 26.
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York and M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (jointly acquired at the above sale).
Joseph S. and Ethel B. Atha, Shawnee Mission, Kansas (acquired from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 25 October 1941).
Partial bequest from Ethel B. Atha to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 1986.
Literature
G. Geffroy, "Histoire de l'Impressionnisme" in La vie artistique, vol. III, 1894, pp. 85-86.
G. Geffroy, Claude Monet: Sa vie, son temps, son œuvre, Paris, 1922, pp. 118 and 123 (titled Moulin sur l'Epte).
G. Geffroy, Claude Monet: Sa vie, son œuvre, Paris, 1924, vol. I, pp. 197 and 214 (titled Moulin sur l'Epte).
G.-S. Mercier, "Mouvement artistique: A l'exposition de la 'cité moderne,' question de prix" in L'écho d'Alger, vol. 25, no. 9382, 12 April 1936, p. 8.
D. de Charnage, "Chronique artistique: Les grandes ventes" in La Croix, vol. 57, no. 16412, 18 August 1936 (titled Le vieux moulin).
O. Reuterswärd, Monet: En konstnärshistorik, Stockholm, 1948, p. 183 (illustrated, p. 183, pl. 85; dated 1887).
D. Rouart and J.-D. Rey, Monet: Nymphéas ou les miroirs du temps, Paris, 1972, p. 73 (detail illustrated, p. 72; dated 1883).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1979, vol. III, p. 116, no. 1210 (illustrated, p. 117).
D. Lewis, "Museum Impressions" in Carnegie Magazine, vol. 59, no. 12, November-December 1989, p. 46.
R. Ward, "Selected Acquisitions of European and American Paintings at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 1986-1990: Supplement" in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 133, no. 1055, February 1991, pp. 155-156 (illustrated in color, p. 155, fig. IV).
W.H. Gerdts, Monet's Giverny: An Impressionist Colony, New York, 1993, p. 17.
B. Denvir, The Chronicle of Impressionism: An Intimate Diary of the Lives and World of the Great Artists, London, 1993, p. 279.
R. Ward and P.J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, New York, 1993, p. 211 (illustrated).
"Music Teachers National Association: National Convention" in American Music Teacher, vol. 45, no. 4, February-March 1996, p. 23.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. III, p. 460, no. 1210 (illustrated).
O. Poncet, ed., Claude Monet: A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York, 2007, p. 140.
D.E. Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, Kansas City, 2008, p. 124, no. 317 (illustrated in color).
A. Thorson, "Three Times the Wonder: Claude Monet's Later Work Reflects his Obsession with the Color and Reflections in his Water Garden" in Kansas City Star Magazine: Kansas City Star, vol. 131, no. 198, 3 April 2011, p. S9.
"Nelson-Atkins to Unveil Renovated Bloch Galleries of European Art in winter 2017" in Artdaily.org, 20 July 2016 (accessed March 2024).
C. Futter et al., Bloch Galleries: Highlights from the Collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, 2016, p. 94 (illustrated).
N. Siegal, "Hieronymus Bosch is Credited with Work in Kansas City Museum" in The New York Times, vol. 165, no. 57130, 1 February 2016, p. C5.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet, A. Rodin, June 1889, p. 41, no. 122.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Monet, Pissarro, Renoir & Sisley, April 1899, p. 6, no. 29 (titled Moulin sur l'Epte).
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet, January 1924, no. 5 (titled Le Moulin d'Epte).
Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (intermittently exhibited as part of the collection, 1986-2024).
Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Impressionism: Selections from Five American Museums, July-September 1990.
Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Monet and his Modern Legacy, October 2023-March 2024.
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