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An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate
Meules à Giverny
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May 16, 12:52 AM GMT
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An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate
Claude Monet
1840 – 1926
Meules à Giverny
signed Claude Monet and dated 93 (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ⅞ by 39 ½ in.
65.5 by 100.2 cm.
Executed in 1893.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 2 December 1893)
Dwight Blaney, Brookline (acquired from the above on 4 March 1895)
Walter I. Nichols, Boston, 12-15 June 1945, lot 645 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Doll and Richards, Inc., Boston (acquired at the above sale)
Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above on 15 June 1945)
The Honorable and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, New York (acquired from the above on 4 January 1947)
Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above)
Joseph B. Ridder, San Jose (acquired from the above on 2 December 1953)
Virginia Ridder, New York and Santa Barbara (ex-wife of the above)
Christie’s, New York, 15 November 1983, lot 56
Private Collection, United States
Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ed.,"Contributions to the Loan Exhibitions," Annual Report for the Year 1895, vol. 20, 31 December 1895, p. 62
"Monet's Works in Brave Array," The Boston Herald, 14 May 1905
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, ed., "Loans Received in 1911," Annual Report for the Year 1911, vol. 36, 1911, p. 151
Marthe de Fels, La Vie de Claude Monet, Paris, 1929, p. 235
Maurice Malingue, Claude Monet, Monaco, 1943, pl. 127, illustrated (dated 1889)
Oscar Reuterswärd, Monet, Stockholm, 1948, p. 286 (titled Höstacker)
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Lausanne, 1979, no. 1362, pp. 170-71, illustrated; p, 275, letter no. 1227
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, pp. 49 and 94
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1362, pp. 564-65, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, Wildenstein & Co., Claude Monet (1840-1926). A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff, 2007, p. 115, illustrated in a photograph of the 1905 Copley Society exhibition
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Loan Exhibition, 1895, n.n.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings and Drawings, 1896, no. 413, p. 45
The Copley Society of Boston, Copley Hall, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, 1905, no. 43 (titled Haystacks, Giverny)
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, 1911, no. 11
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Claude Monet Memorial Exhibition, 1927, no. 24 (titled Les Meules)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (on extended loan in 2010)