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Artistic Reverie: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Claude Monet

Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, temps couvert

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November 14, 01:23 AM GMT

Estimate

30,000,000 - 40,000,000 USD

Lot Details

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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