Lot 311
  • 311

Claude Monet

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Description

  • Claude Monet
  • ANÉMONES
  • oil on canvas
  • 16 by 40cm., 6 1/4 by 15 3/4 in.

Provenance

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1885)
Acquired from the above by the father of the present owner in 1950

Exhibited

Paris, Durand-Ruel, Claude Monet, 1970, no. 34 (part), illustrated in the catalogue 

Literature

G. Lecomte, L'Art impressionniste, Paris, 1892, p. 198
Léon Werth, Claude Monet, Paris, 1928, illustrated pl. 46
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue raisonné, Geneva, 1979, vol. II, no. 939, illustrated p. 145 and as part of the door p. 144
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. II, no. 939, illustrated p. 351 and as part of the door p. 350

Condition

The canvas is lined. There are small scattered retouchings at intermittent intervals, of which the largest is 0.5cm. in diameter to the flower second from left. All retouchings are visible under UV light. This work is in good condition.
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