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CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)

Lot 52
19.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 52 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Estimate value
$ 7 000 000 – 10 000 000
CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Pommiers en fleurs
signed ‘Claude Monet.’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 29 in. (59.3 x 73.7 cm.)
Painted in Argenteuil in 1872




Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, 11 May 1872).
(possibly) W.C. Reynolds, New York (1894).
John Barton Payne, Chicago.
The Union League Club of Chicago (acquired from the above, 1895).



Literature

A. Silvestre, intro., Galerie Durand-Ruel: Recueil d’estampes, 1873, no. LXXXI (engraving by H. Lefort after the present work illustrated).
A. Baignères, "Exposition de peinture" in L’Echo, vol. 8, no. 437, 13 April 1876, p. 3 (titled Printemps).
C. Bigot, “Causerie artistique: L’exposition des 'intransigeants'" in La revue politique et littéraire, vol. 5, no. 41, 8 April 1876, p. 350 (titled Printemps).
G. Rivière, "2ème exposition des Impressionnistes" in L’esprit moderne, 13 April 1876, pp. 7-8.
P. Dax, "Chronique: Salon de 1876" in L’Artiste, vol. 47, no. 1, May 1876, p. 348.
"About Art and Artists" in Chicago Evening Post, 22 March 1895.
G. Corliss, ed., Catalogue of Paintings and Other Works of Art, Chicago, 1899, p. 10, no. 22 (with incorrect dimensions).
“Landscapes by Monet: The Impressionist’s Work at Art Institute” in Chicago Evening Journal, 22 March 1895.
L.M. McCauley, ed., Catalogue of Paintings, Etchings, Engravings and Sculpture, Chicago, 1907, pp. 34-35, no. 55.
G. Geffroy, Claude Monet: Sa vie, son temps, son œuvre, Paris, 1922, pp. 59 and 72 (titled Printemps).
W.B. Mundie, "Monet, Lately Deceased, First 'Impressionist'" in Union League Club Bulletin, vol. IV, no. 1, February 1927, pp. 22-23 (illustrated, p. 22).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, peintures, Lausanne, 1974, vol. I, p. 204, no. 201 (illustrated, p. 205).
A.P. Belloli, ed., A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984, pp. 256-257 and 364, no. 100 (illustrated in color, p. 257).
C.S. Moffett, The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874-1886, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1986, p. 163, no. 163.
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. I, p. 95 and vol. II, p. 92, no. 201 (illustrated).
N. Harris, Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection, Chicago, 2003, pp. 168-170 and 284 (illustrated in color, p. 169; detail illustrated in color, p. 283; illustrated in color again on the inside cover).



Exhibited

Paris, Rue Le Peletier, 2e exposition de peinture, April 1876, p. 16, no. 163 (titled Le Printemps).
(possibly) New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, January 1895.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, March 1895.
Nashville, Centennial Park, Centennial Exposition, May-October 1897.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, March-May 1975, p. 99, no. 45 (illustrated; dated 1878).
Rome, Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano, From Corot to Monet: The Ecology of Impressionism, March-June 2010, p. 128, no. 4 (illustrated in color, p. 129).
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monet: The Early Years, October 2016-May 2017, pp. 178-179 and 197, no. 51 (illustrated in color, p. 178).
Denver Art Museum and Potsdam, Museum Barberini, Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, October 2019-June 2020, pp. 151 and 266, no. 46 (illustrated in color, p. 151).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 2020-January 2021, pp. 28, 35, 54 and 131, no. 19 (illustrated in color, p. 54; detail illustrated in color, p. 22).
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