Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Property from an Important European Collection
Arbres au bord de l'eau, printemps à Giverny
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Claude Monet
1840 - 1926
Arbres au bord de l'eau, printemps à Giverny
signed Claude Monet (lower left)
oil on canvas
81 by 100 cm. 31 by 39 in.
Executed in 1885.
(possibly) Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris and Isidore Montaignac, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1898)
Roger G. Gompel (1885-1976), Paris (acquired by 1952)
Estate of Roger G. Gompel
Drouot-Montaigne, Paris, 22 November 1987, no. 384 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Japan (acquired by 1991)
Sotheby’s, London, 5 February 2002, lot 6
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, L'opera completa di Claude Monet, Milan, 1978, no. 283, p. 107 (titled Primavera a Giverny)
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet. Biographie et catalogue raisonné: peintures 1882-1886, vol. II, Lausanne and Paris, 1979, no. 982, p. 159, illustrated
Luigina Rossi Bortolatto and Janine Bailly-Herzberg, Tout l'œuvre peint de Monet, Paris, 1981, no. 281, p. 106
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet. Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no. 982, p. 43, listed
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet. Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 982, p. 368, illustrated
Zurich, Kunsthaus and Paris, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Monet, 1952, no. 64 (Zurich), no. 48 (Paris) (titled Le Printemps à Giverny)
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Claude Monet, 1954, no. 29 (titled Printemps à Giverny)