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CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)

Lot 10
12.05.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
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$ 75 960 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 745086
Lot 10 | CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 000 – 60 000 000
CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)Le Parlement, soleil couchantsigned and dated ‘Claude Monet 1903’ (lower left)oil on canvas32 x 36 1⁄4 in. (81.2 x 92 cm.)Painted in 1900-1903 Provenance Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, May 1904). Elizabeth and William Lowell Putnam, Boston (acquired from the above, 1907). Anna and Augustus Lowell Putnam, Boston (by descent from the above). Katharine and Harvey H. Bundy, Boston (by descent from the above, until at least 1962).Private collection, United States. Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1982). Acquired from the above by the late owner, 22 January 1982. Literature R. de Bettex, "Échos de partout. Cl. Monet" in La République française, 10 May 1904, p. 1. R.M. Ferry, "Notes d’art. La Tamise par M. Cl. Monet" in La Liberté, 18 May 1904, no. 13.889, p. 3. L. Venturi, Les archives de l'Impressionnisme, New York, 1939, vol. I, p. 393, letter 280. D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1985, vol. VI, p. 186, no. 1604 (illustrated, p. 187); p. 365, letters 1723 and 1724; p. 427, doc. 170 and p. 428, doc. 196.J. Heilpern, “The Bass Reserve” in Vogue, December 1988, pp. 347 and 388 (illustrated in color in situ in Mrs. Bass's home). C. Irvine, Remarkable Private New York Residences, New York, 1990, p. 11 (illustrated in color in situ in Mrs. Bass's home, p. 10). D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. VI, pp. 712-713, no. 1604 (illustrated, p. 710).D. Hampton, Mark Hampton: An American Decorator, New York, 2009, p. 132 (illustrated in color in situ in Mrs. Bass's home). Exhibited Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Monet: Vues de la Tamise à Londres, May-June 1904, p. 11, no. 28. Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Monet, 1904, no. 10. Toledo Museum of Art, Opening of the New Galleries Devoted to the Permanent Collections of Paintings and Sculpture and Exhibition of One Hundred Paintings by the Impressionists, November-December 1905, p. 6, no. 54. Montreal, The Art Gallery, French Impressionists, February 1906, no. 7. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, An Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, August 1911, no. 35. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Impressionist and Barbizon School, 1919-1920, no. 2 or 42. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet: Memorial Exhibition, January 1927, no. 60. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Special Loan Exhibition of Monet, 1962. New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Claude Monet, October-November 1976, no. 60 (illustrated in color).
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