Claude Monet

Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Collection De Galia, Paris
Thadée Nathanson, Paris (sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27th November 1953, lot 48)
Meissner Gallery, Zurich
Norbert Cymbalista, Switzerland
Sale: Christie's, New York, 15th May 1986, lot 264
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Thadée Nathanson, Peintes à leur tour, Paris, 1946, illustrated pl. II
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne & Paris, 1985, vol. IV, no. 1776, illustrated p. 246
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1997, vol. IV, no. 1776, illustrated in colour p. 835

Executed on parchment, laid down on board. The upper edge is slightly unevenly cut. There is some light surface dirt and a tiny scratch to the centre of the upper edge. There are two small repairs to the upper and lower left corners and a few tiny pinhead-sized repairs to the extreme right edge. There is some minor discolouration to parts of the unpainted background associated to the laying down process. Otherwise, this work is in overall good condition. Colours: overall fairly accurate in the printed catalogue, though the parchment is slightly less red in the original.
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