Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Artistic Reverie: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan
Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert
Auction Closed
November 14, 01:23 AM GMT
Estimate
30,000,000 - 40,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Artistic Reverie: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan
Claude Monet
1840 - 1926
Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert
signed Claude Monet and dated 91 (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 by 32 ⅛ in. 91.5 by 81.5 cm.
Executed in 1891.
Durand-Ruel, Paris (possibly acquired directly from the artist on 27 January 1892)
Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago (possibly acquired from the above on 5 March 1892)
Howard Young, New York (probably acquired from the estate of the above circa 1922)
Durand-Ruel, New York (acquired from the above on 15 October 1925)
Marie-Louise d'Alayer de Costemore d'Arc, Paris (acquired by descent from the above in 1949)
(probably) Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil Pasha, Giza (acquired from the above in 1951)
Galerie André Maurice, Paris
Robert E. Ricksen, New York
Parke-Bernet, New York, 14 April 1965, lot 87 (consigned by the above)
Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Carl Haffenreffer, Rhode Island (acquired from the above in April 1965)
Fujii Gallery, Tokyo
Acquired by 1990 by the present owner
Oscar Reuterswärd, Monet, Stockholm, 1948, no. 96, p. 205, illustrated
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Lausanne and Paris, 1979, no. 1299, pp. 148-49 and 263-64, illustrated
Paul Hayes Tucker, Monet, Le Triomphe de la lumière, Paris, 1990, pl. 38, pp. 115, 117 and 121, illustrated
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et Catalogue raisonné, supplement, vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no. 1299, p. 48
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Cologne and Lausanne, 1996, no. 1299, p. 520; p. 510, illustrated in color
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism, Cologne, 1999, p. 280
Paris, Durand-Ruel, Monet, 1892, no. 5 or 15
Boston, Copley Hall, Monet-Rodin, 1905, no. 15
Paris, Palais de Marbre, Paysage Contemporain, 1925, no. 52
Berlin, Galerien Thannhauser, Claude Monet, 1928, no. 45, p. 55, illustrated (titled Die Papplen)
(possibly) Venice, XVIII Biennale, Mostra individuale retrospettiva Cl. Monet, 1932, no. 9
(possibly) Venice, XXI Biennale, 1938
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley: Four Masters of Impressionism, 1968, no. 47, illustrated in color (titled Les Peupliers)
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago and London, Royal Academy of Art, Monet in the ‘90s, The Series Paintings, 1990, no. 34, pl. 38, pp. 118 and 297, illustrated in color
Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Nagoya City Art Museum and Hiroshima Museum of Art, Monet: A Retrospective, 1994, no. 53, p. 172, illustrated in color
Paris, Musée du Luxembourg; London, The National Gallery and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Inventing Impressionism, Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market, 2014-15, no. 54, p. 258, illustrated in color