
Property of a Distinguished Private Collector
Nymphéas
Estimate
30,000,000 - 40,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Claude Monet
1840 - 1926
Nymphéas
signed Claude Monet and dated 1907 (lower right)
oil on canvas
93.7 by 89.5 cm. 36⅞ by 35¼ in.
Executed in 1907.
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie. and Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist on 3 June 1909)
James W. Viles, Chicago (acquired from the above on 22 October 1909)
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above on 7 April 1910)
Arthur B. Emmons, Newport, Rhode Island (acquired from the above on 4 February 1911)
American Art Association, New York, 14-15 January 1920, lot 38 (consigned by the above)
Scott and Fowles, New York (acquired from the above sale)
Helen Swift Neilson, Chicago (acquired from the above)
The Art Institute of Chicago (acquired by bequest from the above in February 1946)
E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York (acquired from the above in December 1947)
Gabriel Fodor, Geneva (acquired from the above in 1947)
Wildenstein & Co. Inc., New York (acquired from the above in February 1984)
Anne H. Bass, New York (acquired from the above on 31 May 1984)
Christie’s New York, 12 May 2022, lot 12C (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Les Nymphéas: Séries de Paysages d’eau par Claude Monet, 1909, no. 28
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Claude Monet: Late Work, 2010, p. 53, illustrated in colour
“Ventes américaines,” Le journal des arts, 21 February 1920, p. 3
“Mouvement des arts: Collections Emmons, Flanagan Sayles et autres à New York,” La chronique des arts et de la curiosité, 29 February 1920, no. 4, p. 32
Lionello Venturi, Les archives de l’Impressionnisme, vol. I, Paris, 1939, pp. 421-425, letters 327-332
Denis Rouart, Jean-Dominique Rey and Robert Maillard, Monet: Nymphéas, ou les miroirs du temps, Paris, 1972, illustrated
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, peintures, vol. IV, Lausanne, 1985, no. 1698, p. 218, illustrated, p. 219; pp. 376-377, letters 1885, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891 and 1897; p. 429, doc. 213 and 217
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, supplément aux peintures, dessins, pastels, vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no. 1698, p. 53
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Cologne, 1996, no. 1698, p. 774, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée national de l'Orangerie, Monet. Le cycle de Nymphéas, 1999, p. 39, illustrated
Pierre Georgel, Claude Monet nymphéas, Paris, 1999, p. 43, illustrated in colour
Denis Rouart and Jean-Dominique Rey, Monet. Water Lilies: The Complete Series, Paris, 2008, p. 131, illustrated
Roman Komarov, Claude Monet. Les Nymphéas, Saint Petersburg, 2021, no. 60, p. 202, illustrated
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