CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
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ID 1472432
Lot 35 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Estimate value
1800000GBP £ 1 800 000 – 2 500 000
Printemps, saules
signed and dated 'Claude Monet 86' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ¾ x 32 1/8 in. (65.3 x 81.6 cm.)
Painted in spring 1885
Provenance
(Probably) Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist in May 1885.
American Art Association, New York, by whom acquired from the above in September 1886.
James F. Sutton, New York, circa 1893.
Rose Lorenz, New York, a gift from the above; sale, Anonymous sale, American Art Association, New York, 15 January 1920, lot 48.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, acquired from the above in 1927.
Hal H. Smith, Detroit, by whom acquired from the above on 5 June 1930.
William Beadleston, Inc., New York.
Private collection; sale, Christie's, New York, 11 November 1997, lot 122.
Acquired at the above sale, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Letter from Theodore Robinson to Claude Monet, New York, 17 August 1893.
'Claude Monet Exhibit Opens' in Boston Post, 15 March 1905.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1882-1886, Lausanne & Paris, 1979, no. 981, pp. 158, & 294 (illustrated p. 159).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no, 981, p. 43.
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. III, no. 981, p. 368 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, American Art Galleries, Monet and Besnard, Summer 1893, no. 150.
Boston, Copley Hall, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, March 1905, no. 15.
Boston, Brooks Reed Gallery, Claude Monet, Tableaux Durand-Ruel, March 1921.
Concord, MA., Art Center, Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May - June 1923, no. 30, pp. 16 & 17.
Columbus, Ohio, Gallery of Fine Arts, Paintings by Modern French Masters, June 1924, no. 27.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Tableaux par Claude Monet, January 1928, no. 48.
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