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CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)

Lot 11
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ID 745082
Lot 11 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
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CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, automnesigned and dated ‘Claude Monet 91’ (lower right)oil on canvas39 3⁄4 x 25 7⁄8 in. (101 x 65.7 cm.)Painted in 1891 Provenance Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, January 1892). Henry Sayles, Boston (1892); sale, American Art Association, New York, 14 January 1920, lot 50. Durand-Ruel Galleries and M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale). Stephen C. Clark, New York (acquired from the above, January 1920).Private collection, New York; sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 30-31 March 1949, lot 85. Mr. and Mrs. Kurt F. Pantzer, Indianapolis (1949); Estate sale, Christie’s, New York, 19 May 1982, lot 17. Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale). Acquired from the above by the late owner, 19 May 1982. Literature W. Dewhurst, Impressionist Painting: Its Genesis and Development, London, 1904, pp. 42-43 (illustrated). C. Mauclair, L’Impressionnisme: Son histoire, son esthétique, ses maîtres, Paris, 1904, p. 88 (illustrated). G. Grappe, Claude Monet, Paris, 1909, p. 59. C. Léger, Claude Monet, Paris, 1930 (illustrated, pl. 27). L. Venturi, Les archives de l’Impressionnisme, Paris, 1939, vol. I, pp. 341-342, letter 198. D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1979, vol. III, p. 148, no. 1297 (illustrated, p. 149); pp. 263-264, letters 1128, 1131, 1133 and 1135. G. Seiberling, Monet's Series, New York, 1981, p. 362, no. 6. J. Herbert, Christie’s Review of the Season, New York, 1982, p. 119 (illustrated in color). R. Gordon and A. Forge, Monet, New York, 1983, p. 292 (illustrated in color, p. 166). C. Irvine, Remarkable Private New York Residences, New York, 1990, p. 11 (illustrated in situ in Mrs. Bass's home, p. 10). P.H. Tucker, Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1990, pp. 132-133 and 277, note 35. D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, supplément aux peintures, dessins, pastels, Lausanne, 1991, vol. V, p. 48, no. 1297. P.H. Tucker, Claude Monet: Life and Art, London, 1995, p. 146, no. 164 (illustrated with incorrect image). D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1996, vol. III, p. 519, no. 1297 (illustrated in color, p. 508). D. Wildenstein, Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism, Cologne, 1999, p. 280. V. Russell, Monet's Landscapes, London, 2000, p. 109 (illustrated in color). M. Conforti, The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2006, pp. 138 and 338, no. 301. Exhibited Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Monet, March 1892, no. 13. Boston, St. Botolph Club, Claude Monet, February 1899, no. 14. Boston, Copley Hall, Monet, March 1905, no. 54. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, August 1911, no. 7. St. Louis, Carroll-Knight Gallery, Inc., Exhibition of Paintings by American, French and English Artists, 1946, no. 6. Wilmington, Society of Fine Arts, Exhibition of French Paintings, January-February 1948, no. 29. South Bend, Notre Dame University Art Gallery, The Great Century: France, 1800-1900, November 1959 (illustrated). Indianapolis, John Herron Museum of Art, Indiana Collects, October-November 1960, no. 63 (illustrated). The Dayton Art Institute; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery; Ithaca, Cornell University, White Art Museum; West Virginia, Huntington Galleries; Seattle, Charles and Emma Frye Museum; Phoenix Art Museum; Reno, University of Nevada; The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego and Atlanta Art Association, Monet and the Giverny Group, January 1961-January 1962, no. 26. Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La peinture française: Collections américaines, May-September 1966, pp. 62-63, no. 69 (illustrated, p. LV, pl. 53). New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff, April-June 2007, p. 320, no. 43 (illustrated in color, p. 260).
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