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An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate

Claude Monet

Bennecourt

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate


Claude Monet

1840 – 1926


Bennecourt

signed Claude Monet and dated 87 (lower left)

oil on canvas

32 ¼ by 32 ½ in.

81.8 by 82.5 cm.

Executed in 1887.

John Singer Sargent, London (acquired directly from the artist in August 1887)

Julie H. Heyneman, London and San Francisco (acquired from the above)

Aline Barnsdall, Beverly Hills (acquired by 1940)

Aline Devine, United States (acquired by descent from the above)

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (on consignment from the above)

Pauline Settle Ney, New York (acquired from the above in May 1953)

Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 1986, lot 14 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner 

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Lausanne and Paris, 1979, no. 1126, p. 88; illustrated p. 89

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no. 1126, pp. 45 and 113-14

Exh. Cat., Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet 1840-1926, 1995, p. 215

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1126, p. 426, illustrated

London, The New Burlington Galleries, Exhibition of Masters of French 19th Century Painting, 1936, no. 46 (titled Spring Landscape and dated 1886)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (on extended loan in 1940)