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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Claude Monet

L’Aiguille de Cléopâtre et Charing Cross Bridge

Auction Closed

November 14, 01:23 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Claude Monet

1840 - 1926


L’Aiguille de Cléopâtre et Charing Cross Bridge

stamped with the signature (lower right); stamped again (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

25 ½ by 32 in. 64.8 by 81.3 cm.

Executed circa 1899.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Monet Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Michel Monet, Giverny (acquired by descent from the artist)

Mlle Maltezos, Paris (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, London, 7 April 1976, lot 15 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, UK and South America (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, USA (acquired through The Leicester Galleries, London in 2000 from the above)

Halcyon Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in 2012 by the present owner

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Lausanne, 1985, no. 1544, p. 166; p. 167, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Altanta, High Museum of Art, Monet in London, 1988-89, p. 56, illustrated

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Paris and Lausanne, 1991, no. 1544, p. 52

Eric Shanes, Impressionist London, New York, 1994, p. 135, illustrated

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1544, p. 668, illustrated in color

St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Art; The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Monet's London: Artist's Reflection on the Thames 1859-1914, 2005, no. 23, p. 77, illustrated in color

London, The National Gallery, Monet & Architecture, 2018, no. 171, p. 182, illustrated in color