CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
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ID 1423002
Lot 50 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 000 – 50 000 000
Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule
signed and dated 'Claude Monet 91' (lower right)
oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (100 x 65.1 cm.)
Painted in 1891
Provenance
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, January 1892).
Jean and Marie-Louise d’Alayer de Costemore d’Arc (née Durand-Ruel), Paris (by descent from the above, July 1949).
Galerie Dufresne, Paris (acquired from the above, 1955).
(probably) Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, circa 1960.
Literature
Letter from C. Monet to P. Durand-Ruel, 1 January 1892.
Letter from C. Monet to P. Durand-Ruel, 25 January 1892.
Letter from C. Monet to P. Durand-Ruel, 21 February 1892.
Letter from C. Monet to P. Durand-Ruel, 23 February 1892.
Letter from C. Pissarro to C. Monet, 9 March 1892.
J. Leclercq, "Petites expositions: Galerie Durand-Ruel" in La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplement à la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 15, 15 April 1899, pp. 130-131.
L. Venturi, Les archives de l’Impressionnisme, Paris, 1939, vol. I, pp. 341-342.
J. Joets, ed., "Lettres inédites de Pissarro à Cl. Monet" in Amour de l’Art, 1946, p. 63, no. 111.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1979, vol. III, pp. 146, 263-264 and 299, no. 1296 (illustrated, p. 147).
R. Gordon and A. Forge, Monet, New York, 1983, pp. 167 and 292 (illustrated in color, p. 166).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1991, vol. V, p. 48, no. 1296.
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. III, p. 519, no. 1296 (illustrated in color, p. 507).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Monet: Série des peupliers des bords de l’Epte, February-March 1892, no. 1.
London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Pictures by Painters of the French School, June-September 1898, p. 102, no. 154.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Exposition de tableaux de Monet, Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley, April 1899, p. 7, no. 35.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Exposition de paysages par Claude Monet et Renoir, May-June 1908, no. 30 (dated 1892).
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Cinquante ans de peinture française dans les collections particulières: de Cézanne à Matisse, March-April 1952, no. 117.
The University of Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Gallery (on extended loan, 1977-1990).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan, 1990-2025).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; The Art Institute of Chicago and London, Royal Academy of Art, Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings, February-December 1990, pp. 113 and 297, no. 32 (illustrated in color, p. 117, pl. 37).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June-August 1992, p. 184, no. 97 (illustrated, pl. 134).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, The Magic of Trees, November 1998-April 1999, pp. 15, 24 and 163, no. 84 (illustrated, p. 16, fig. 11; illustrated again in color, p. 24).
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Claude Monet, September 2010-January 2011, pp. 264 and 276, no. 114 (illustrated in color, p. 276).
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Impresionismo y aire libre: De Corot a Van Gogh, February-May 2013, pp. 123 and 141, no. 57 (illustrated in color, p. 141).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Loves Impressionism, February-May 2014.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression, November 2020-March 2021.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet and Boston: Legacy Illuminated, April-October 2021.
Artist: | Oscar-Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) |
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Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
Art style: | Impressionism |
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 on canvas |
Art style: | Impressionism |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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