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The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection
Barques de pêche
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May 17, 10:38 PM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection
Claude Monet
1840 - 1926
Barques de pêche
bearing the signature Clau (lower left)
oil on canvas
18⅛ by 21⅞ in.
46 by 55.5 cm.
Executed in 1866.
Edmond Duranty, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28-29 January 1881, lot 67 (consigned by the above)
Victor Chocquet, Paris (acquired from the above)
Madame Victor Chocquet, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-4 July 1899, lot 80 (consigned by the above)
Paul Escudier, Paris (acquired from the above)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-12 February 1924, lot 21
Galerie Etienne Bignou, Paris (acquired from the above)
Alex, Reid & Lefevre Ltd., London (acquired in 1924)
Captain Stanley W. Sykes, Cambridge (acquired by circa 1949)
Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1966, lot 9 (consigned by the above)
Thomas Agnew & Sons, London (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, United States
Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired in 1987)
Acquired from the above on 5 August 1998 by the present owner
Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet: Sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre, Paris 1922, p. 219 (titled Sloops de pêche)
Anthony Bertram, Claude Monet, London and New York 1931, pl. 5, illustrated
M. Rostand, Quelques amateurs de l’époque impressionniste, PhD Dissertation, L’École de Louvre, Paris 1955, p. 154
John Rewald, “Chocquet and Cézanne,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. LXXIV, no. 6, July-August 1969, p. 74 (titled Une Étude de Bateau de pêche)
René Huyghe, L’Impressionisme, Paris 1971, p. 306, illustrated
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Paris and Lausanne 1974, no. 76, p. 155, illustrated
Sophie Monneret, L’Impressionsime et son époque, vol. I, Paris 1978, p. 138 (titled Sloop de pêche)
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Lausanne 1991, no. 76, p. 22
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Cologne 1996, no. 76, pp. 41-42, illustrated in color
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism, Cologne 1999, p. 36, illustrated in color
London, The Lefevre Gallery, Important Pictures by Nineteenth Century French Masters, 1924, n.n., n.p., illustrated (titled Bateaux de pêche; Port du Havre and dated circa 1872)
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1942 (on loan)
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 1944-1945 (on loan)
London, The Lefevre Gallery, Claude Monet, The Early Years, 1969, no. 4, p. 25, illustrated
London, The Lefevre Gallery, XIX & XX Century French Painting, 1969, no. 8, p. 16-17, illustrated (titled Barques de Peche (Honfleur))
Tokyo, Wildenstein, La Joie de vivre au tournant du siècle, 1991, no. 3, illustrated in color
Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art; Nagoya City Art Museum and Hiroshima Museum of Art, Monet: A Retrospective, 1994, no. 5, p. 94-95, illustrated in color
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Claude Monet (1840-1926), A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff, 2007, no. 2, pp. 219 and 282-83, illustrated in color (titled Fishing Boats at Honfleur)
Giverny, Musée des Impressionismes, L’Impressionnisme au fil de la Seine, 2010, no. 7, p. 77, illustrated in color (titled Fishing Boats, Honfleur)
Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Monet: The Early Years, 2016-2017, no. 14, p. 111, illustrated in color
Madrid, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Monet/Boudin, 2018, no. 18, pp. 49 and 121, illustrated in color (titled Barcas de pesca, Honfleur)