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Artist |
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Claude Monet |
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Title |
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Le bassin aux nymphéas
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Medium |
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oil on canvas |
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Size |
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39.5 x 79.1 in. / 100.4 x 201 cm. |
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Year |
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1919 - |
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Description |
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Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Le bassin aux nymphéas
signed and dated 'Claude Monet 1919' (lower right)
oil on canvas
39½ x 79 1/8 in. (100.4 x 201 cm.)
Painted in 1919 |
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Misc. |
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Signed |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's London: Tuesday, June 24, 2008
[Lot 16]
Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, by whom acquired from the artist in November 1919.
Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, and Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, by January 1921. Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (nos. 11874 and D13373), by 1922.
Jean d'Alayer (Mme d'Alayer, née Marie-Louise Durand-Ruel), Paris, by whom acquired from the above.
Sam Salz, Inc., New York.
Mr and Mrs Norton Simon, Los Angeles, circa 1968; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 1971, lot 41.
Mrs Elizabeth Clementine Miller Tangeman, Columbus, Indiana, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above by the late owners in August 1993
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Exhibition |
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Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Monet, January - February 1921, no. 44 or 45.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Art and Science in Gardens, June - July 1922, no. 101.
New York, Durand Ruel Galleries, Waterlilies by Claude Monet, February 1924, no. 1-4.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Hommage à Claude Monet, 1926. Philadelphia, Arts Club, Monet, Memorial Exhibition, April 1927, no. 6
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Literature |
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M. Ciolkowska, 'Monet: His Garden, His World', in International Studio, February 1923, no. 309, pp. 371-377 (illustrated p. 378).
D. Rouart, J.-D. Rey & R. Maillard, Monet: Nymphéas, Paris, 1972, (illustrated p. 174).
M. Hoog, Monet, Paris, 1978, no. 80 (illustrated).
R. Gordon & C.F. Stuckey, 'Blossoms and Blunders: Monet and the State', in Art in America, January - February 1979, p. 110.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, 1899-1926, Lausanne and Paris, 1985, no. 1890, p. 288 (illustrated p. 289).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Cologne, 1996, no. 1890 (illustrated p. 897).
S. Muchnic, Odd Man In: Norton Simon and the Pursuit of Culture, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1998, pp. 192-193.
P. Hayes Tucker, 'The Revolution in the Garden: Monet in the Twentieth Century', in exh. cat., Monet in the Twentieth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1999, pp. 79 and 218
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