Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art | An Evening Sale
Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art | An Evening Sale
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections
Vernon, soleil
Auction Closed
December 9, 12:09 AM GMT
Estimate
4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections
Claude Monet
1840 - 1926
Vernon, soleil
Signed Claude Monet and dated 94 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
25⅞ by 36½ in.
65.7 by 92.7 cm
Painted in 1894.
Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist in May 1895)
Henry L. Quick (acquired by 1905)
Acquired from the estate of the above in 1922 with funds given by Helen L. Babbott & Frank L. Babbott
William H. Goodyear & A.D. Savage, Catalogue of Paintings: Museum of the Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, no. 240, p. 49
Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet, sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre, Paris, 1922, p. 209
Hertha Wegener, "French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum" in The Brooklyn Museum Bulletin, vol. XVI, no. 1, autumn 1954, pp. 3 & 24
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Lausanne & Paris, 1976, no. 1386, illustrated p. 181
Joel Isaacson, Claude Monet: Observation and Reflection, New York, 1978, no. 102, illustrated pp. 174-75 & 222
Douglas Skeggs, River of Light: Monet's Impressions of the Seine, New York, 1987, illustrated in color p. 129
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Paris, 1996, no. 1386, illustrated in color p. 574