CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926) - photo 1

CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)

Lot 25
05.03.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1548943
Lot 25 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Estimate value
£ 5 500 000 – 8 500 000
CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Le Parc Monceau
signed and dated 'Claude Monet 1878.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 25 5/8 in. (54.1 x 65 cm.)
Painted in 1878




Provenance

Georges de Bellio, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist on 2 June 1878 and until at least 1889.
(possibly) E. Donop de Monchy, Paris, by whom acquired in 1894.
Paul Rosenberg, Paris.
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, by whom acquired from the above on 6 June 1917.
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, transferred from the above in December 1917.
Private collection, Switzerland, by descent from the above; sale, Christie’s, New York, 9 May 2007, lot 18.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

Letter from Claude Monet to Georges de Bellio, April-May 1879.
(possibly) Letter from Georges de Bellio to Claude Monet, 12 September 1891.
G. Geffroy, Claude Monet, Sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre, Paris, 1922, pp. 98 & 118.
O. Reuterswärd, Monet, Stockholm, 1948, p. 180.
(possibly) M. Rostand, Quelques amateurs de l'époque impressionniste, Paris, 1955, pp. 13 & 31.
C. Roger-Marx, 'Claude Monet et la féérie impressioniste' in Jardin des Arts, July 1959, pp. 578 & 579 (illustrated).
R. Niculescu, 'G. de Bellio, l'ami des impressionistes' in Revue roumaine d'Histoire de l'art, vol. I, no. 2, Bucharest, 1964, p. 217.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1974, vol. I, no. 468, pp. 316 & 436 (illustrated p. 317).
R. L. Herbert, Impressionism: Art, Leisure & Parisian Society, 1988, New Haven, p. 142.
R. Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, vol. II., Exhibited Works, 1996, no. IV-152, p. 115 (illustrated p. 134).
D. Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1996, no. 468, pp. 187 & 188 (illustrated p. 187).



Exhibited

(probably) Paris, 28 avenue de l'Opera, 4e Exposition d'artistes indépendant, realistes et impressionnistes, April - May 1879, no. 152.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet - A. Rodin, 1889, no. 36, p. 31.
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, March 1940, no. 14.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Exposition Claude Monet, May - September 1959, no. 20.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Claude Monet, January - February 1970, no. 19 (illustrated).
Chicago, Art Institute, Monet and Chicago, September 2020 - June 2021, no. 22, p. 131 (illustrated p. 57).
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