A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction
A Legacy of Beauty: The Collection of Sydell Miller Evening Auction
Nymphéas
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Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)
Nymphéas
stamped with the signature Claude Monet (on the reverse); and stamped again (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
68 ⅞ by 53 ⅜ in.
175 by 135.4 cm.
Executed circa 1914-17.
Michel Monet, Giverny (acquired by descent directly from the artist)
Heinrich Wassermann, Basel (acquired from the above on 28 September 1949)
Dr. Walter S. Schiess, Basel (acquired before 1957)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by descent from the above and until at least 1992)
Acquired in 2001 by the present owner
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Geneva, 1985, no. 1789, pp. 252-53, illustrated
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, Cologne, 1996, no. 1789, pp. 843-44, illustrated in color
Jean-Dominique Rey and Denis Rouart, Monet Water Lilies: The Complete Series, Paris, 2008, n.n., p. 133, illustrated in color
Kunsthalle Basel, Impressionisten. Monet Pissarro, Sisley. Vorläufer und Zeitgenossen, 1949, no. 213, illustrated (titled Nymphéas jaunes et bleautres)
Kunsthalle Basel, Basler Privat bestiz, 1957, no. 140, n.p., illustrated (titled Etude pour les nymphéas I)
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Claude Monet: Letzte Werke, 1962, no. 5, n.p.
Schaffhausen, Museums zu Allerheiligen, Die Welt des Impressionismus, 1963, no. 82, p. 25 (titled Studie zu den Seerosen I)
Städtische Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Variationen, 1966, no. 156, n.p., illustrated (titled Nymphéas I)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Claude Monet: Nymphéas. Impression-Vision, 1986, no. 31, p. 69, illustrated in color; p. 175
Kunstmuseum Basel, Die Impressionisten. Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet Pissarro: die Sammlung mit Leihgaben aus Privatbesitz, 1997