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Claude Monet

Vue de la tour Montalban, Amsterdam

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Formerly from Collection of Anna and Sidney Posen


Claude Monet

1840 - 1926


Vue de la tour Montalban, Amsterdam

signed Claude Monet (lower right)

oil on canvas

24 ⅛ by 32 ¼ in.

61.2 by 81.7 cm.

Executed in 1874.


This lot is offered with the benefit of a settlement agreement that resolves any issues arising from the past ownership of this work.

Zacharie Astruc, Paris 

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on 2 August 1882)

Anna and Sidney Posen, Frankfurt (acquired from the above on 6 May 1911)

Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich (acquired from Anna Posen in April 1942)

Emil Georg Bührle, Zurich (acquired on 2 July 1943)

Thence by descent to the present owner 

George Grappe, Monet, Paris, 1941, p. 18, illustrated 

Doris Wild, "Private Kunstsammlungen in der Schweiz," Das Kunstwerk, vol. VI, 1953, p. 28 and p. 18, illustrated 

Robert Thomas Stoll, Die französischen Impressionisten, Zurich, 1957, p. 65 and p. 62, illustrated  

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Paris, 1974, no. 307, p. 249, illustrated

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1996, no. 307, illustrated p. 130

Max Hollein and Uwe Fleckner, Museum im Widerspruch; Das Städel und der Nationalsozialismus, Berlin, 2012, pp. 126-29

Utrecht, Vereeniging voor der Kunst, 1901

Mannheim, Internationale Kunstausstellung, 1907, no. 582b

London, New Gallery, Eighth Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, 1908, no. 140

Kassel, Kunstverein, Französische Kunstausstellung, 1909, no. 70

Basel, Kunsthalle, Impressionisten, 1949, no. 129  

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Europäische Kunst 13.-20. Jahrhundert, 1950, p. 26

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Het franse Landschap, 1951, no. 82, p. 48

Zurich, Kunsthaus; Paris, Galerie des Beaux-Arts and The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Claude Monet, 1952, no. 46 (Zurich); no. 42 (The Hague); n.n. (Paris) 

Winterthur Kunstmuseum, Europäische Meister 1790-1910, 1955, no. 149 

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, 1958, no. 182, fig. 53, pp. 113-14, illustrated

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle-Zürich, 1958-59, no. 113

Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Sammlung Emil G. Bührle. Französische Meister von Delacroix bis Matisse, 1963, no. 29, illustrated

Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Monet in Holland, 1986-87, no. 28, p. 64, illustrated; p. 71, illustration in color (detail); p. 149, illustrated in color