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CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)

Lot 12
12.05.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
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$ 56 495 000
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ID 745083
Lot 12 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
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$ 35 000 000 – 55 000 000
CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)Nymphéassigned and dated ‘Claude Monet 1907’ (lower right)oil on canvas37 x 35 1⁄4 in. (93.8 x 89.3 cm.)Painted in 1907 Provenance Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie. and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, June 1909). James W. Viles, Chicago (acquired from the above, October 1909). Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, 1910). Arthur B. Emmons, Newport (acquired from the above, 1911); sale, American Art Association, New York, 14 January 1920, lot 38. Scott and Fowles, New York (acquired at the above sale). Helen Swift Neilson, Chicago (probably acquired from the above). The Art Institute of Chicago (by bequest from the above, February 1946). E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, December 1947). Gabriel Fodor, Switzerland (acquired from the above, 1947). Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York. Acquired from the above by the late owner, 31 May 1984. Literature “Mouvement des arts: Collections Emmons, Flanagan Sayles et autres à New York" in La chronique des arts et de la curiosité, 29 February 1920, no. 4, p. 32. "Revue des ventes” in Le journal des arts, 21 February 1921, p. 3. L. Venturi, Les archives de l’Impressionnisme, Paris, 1939, vol. I, pp. 421-425, letters 327-332. G. Bazin, L’époque Impressionniste, Paris, 1953 (illustrated, pl. 73). D. Rouart, J.-D. Rey and R. Maillard, Monet: Nymphéas, ou les miroirs du temps, Paris, 1972, p. 160 (illustrated). D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, peintures, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 218, no. 1698 (illustrated, p. 219); pp. 376-377, letters 1885, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891 and 1897; p. 429, doc. 213 and 217. D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, supplément aux peintures, dessins, pastels, Lausanne, 1991, vol. V, p. 53, no. 1698. P. Georgel, Claude Monet nymphéas, Paris, 1999, p. 45 (illustrated in color). D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. IV, p. 775, no. 1698 (illustrated in color, p. 774). J.-D. Rey and D. Rouart, Monet Water Lilies: The Complete Series, Paris, 2008, p. 125 (illustrated). Exhibited Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Les Nymphéas: Séries de paysages d’eau par Claude Monet, May-June 1909, no. 28. New York, Gagosian Gallery, Monet: The Late Works, May-June 2010, p. 112 (illustrated in color, p. 53).
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