Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art | An Evening Sale

Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art | An Evening Sale

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Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections

Claude Monet

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