CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)

Lot 75
17.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1492564
Lot 75 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Estimate value
$ 2 800 000 – 3 500 000
CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Falaise des Petites-Dalles
signed and dated 'Claude Monet 81' (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 28 ¾ in. (59.5 x 73 cm.)
Painted in 1881




Provenance

Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris and New York (acquired from the artist).
The American Art Association of New York (on consignment from the above, September 1886).
Arthur P. and Frances Welland Blake, Brookline, Massachusetts (acquired from the above, 22 January 1890, until at least 1929).
French Art Gallery, New York.
Private collection, New York (acquired from the above); sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 14 January 1959, lot 85.
Private collection, New England (acquired at the above sale, then by descent); sale, Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1996, lot 19.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

M. de Fels, La vie de Claude Monet, Paris, 1929, p. 236.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1979, vol. I, p. 398, no. 664 (illustrated, p. 399).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1991, vol. V, p. 36, no. 664.
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. II, pp. 250-251, no. 664 (illustrated, p. 249).



Exhibited

Boston, St. Botolph Club, A Loan Exhibition of Pictures by Claude Monet, February 1899, no. 10.
Boston, Copley Hall, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, March 1905, p. 14, no. 16.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, August 1911, no. 10.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Claude Monet: Memorial Exhibition, January 1927, no. 34.
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