Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from the Descendants of Bertha and Potter Palmer
Le Moulin de Limetz
Auction Closed
November 14, 01:23 AM GMT
Estimate
12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Descendants of Bertha and Potter Palmer
Claude Monet
1840 - 1926
Le Moulin de Limetz
signed Claude Monet and dated 88 (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 ¼ by 28 ¾ in. 92 by 72.9 cm.
Executed in 1888.
Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 31 December 1888)
Lulling Collection (acquired from the above on 31 August 1891)
Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris (acquired from the above on 31 December 1891)
Bertha and Potter Palmer, Chicago (acquired from the above on 10 May 1892)
Gordon Palmer, United States (acquired by descent from the above circa 1961)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Alphonse de Calonne, "L’art contre nature," Soleil, 23 June 1889, p. 1
Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet: Sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre, Paris, 1922, p. 118
John Rewald, “Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. LXXXI, January-February 1973, pp. 63 and 98
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no. 2027-1210bis, p. 15, illustrated
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1210a, pp. 460-61, illustrated in color
(possibly) Paris, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Monet, 1889
London, Goupil et Cie., Monet, 1889, no. III
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Monet-Rodin, 1889, no. 119
Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, 2020-21, no. 50, illustrated in color