Property from a Private European Collection
Claude Monet
Les Îles de Port-Villez
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April 16, 03:19 PM GMT
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3,000,000 - 5,000,000 EUR
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Description
Property from a Private European Collection
Claude Monet
1840 - 1926
Les Îles de Port-Villez
signed Claude Monet and dated 83 (lower left)
oil on canvas
65,5 x 81,8 cm; 25¾ x 32¼ in.
Executed in 1883.
Please note that this work is the subject of a loan request for the exhibition "Monet par-delà l'horizon" to be held at the National Center in Tokyo and the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka in 2029-30.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 11 December 1883)
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (transferred from the above in 1897)
Jean and Marie-Louise d'Alayer (born Marie-Louise Durand-Ruel), Paris (by descent from the above in 1949)
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 3 June 1954, lot 51 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owners
Montreal, The Art Gallery, French Impressionists, 1906, no. 6
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, 1907, no. 19 (titled Les îles de Portvillers)
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings of different periods by Monet, 1911, no. 9 (titled Les îles de Portvillers)
Lionello Venturi, Les Archives de l'Impressionnisme, vol. I, Paris, 1939, p. 268
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet. Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Lausanne, 1979, no. 841, pp. 108-109, illustrated
Steven Z. Levine, Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection : The Modernist Myth of the Self, Chicago, 1994, no. 37, pp. 39 and 43, illustrated
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1996, no. 841, pp. 312-313, illustrated