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Property from an Important Private Collection

Claude Monet

Maison de jardinier

Auction Closed

March 4, 09:10 PM GMT

Estimate

6,500,000 - 8,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Claude Monet

1840 - 1926


Maison de jardinier

signed Claude Monet and dated 84 (lower right)

oil on canvas

60.5 by 73 cm. 23⅝ by 28⅞ in.

Executed in Bordighera in 1884.

Girard & Cie., Paris

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the above on 11 April 1888)

John Singer Sargent, London (acquired from the above on 26 August 1891)

Christie's, London, 24 and 27 July 1925, lot 303 (consigned by the above)

Emile Bernheim, Galerie Durand-Ruel and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (jointly acquired from the above sale)

Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York (transferred from the above on 22 April 1926)

Sarah Choate Sears, Boston (acquired in 1926)

Amelia Peabody, Boston

Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., New York (acquired from the above in 1950)

Domenica Walter-Guillaume, Paris (acquired from the above in June 1953)

Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 24 November 1977, lot 7

Helly Nahmad Gallery, London

Sotheby's, London, 28 June 1978, lot 14 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)

Private Collection, Europe

Sotheby’s London, 5 February 2007, lot 27 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Monet et Rodin, 1889, no. 64 (titled À Bordighera)

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Claude Monet, Memorial Exhibition, 1927, no. 69 (titled Scene at Bordighera)

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., Springtime in Painting, 1953, no. 5 (titled Bordighera - Mediterranée) or no. 6 (titled Bordighera)

“Vente atelier John Sargent,” Le Bulletin de la Vie Artistique, 15 August 1925, p. 363 (titled Bordighera)

Lionello Venturi, Les Archives de l'Impressionnisme, vol. I, Paris and New York, 1939, p. 281 (titled Maisons de jardiniers à Bordighera)

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet. Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Lausanne and Paris, 1979, no. 867, p. 119, illustrated

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet. Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no. 867, p. 41

Marianne Alphant, Claude Monet. Une vie dans le paysage, Paris, 1993, p. 396

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet. Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1996, no. 867, p. 323, illustrated; pp. 324-25

Exh. Cat., Denver Art Museum, Claude Monet. The Truth of Nature, 2019, fig. 6, p. 45, illustrated in colour

Exh. Cat., Potsdam, Museum Barberini, Monet Places, 2020, fig. 6, p. 45, illustrated in colour