Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now

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Property from an Important European Collection

Claude Monet

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)