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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 8, 2018 | Christie's | New York | The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: 19th & 20th | 10 | $****** - ****** | Nymphéas en fleur |
paintings
160.3 x 180 cm (63.11 x 70.87 in)
oil on canvas
stamped with signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; on the reverse)
Estate of the artist
Michel Monet, Giverny (by descent from the above)
Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1955)
Acquired from the above through M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York by the late owners, June 1956.
Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff, Les Grandes Evasions poétiques de Claude Monet, June 1956.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas, October 1956.
H. Kramer, "Month in Review" in Arts Magazine, vol. XXXI, no. 2, November 1956, p. 52 (illustrated).
D. Rouart and J.D. Rey, Claude Monet: Nymphéas, ou les miroirs du temps, suivi d'un catalogue raisonné par R. Maillard, Paris, 1972, p. 170 (illustrated; dated circa 1918-1921).
M. Potter et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: European Works of Art, New York, 1984, vol. I, pp. 46 and 141-142, no. 42 (illustrated in color, p. 142; illustrated again in situ in the Rockefellers' Hudson Pines home, p. 37).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Peintures, 1899-1926, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 254, no. 1790 (illustrated, p. 255).
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. IV, p. 844, no. 1790 (illustrated).
D. Rockefeller, Memoirs, New York, 2002, pp. 447-448.
J. Stourton, Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945, London, 2007, p. 114.
J.-D. Rey and D. Rouart, Monet Water Lilies: The Complete Series, Paris, 2008, p. 132 (illustrated; titled Water Lilies).
stamped with signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; on the reverse)
oil on canvas
63 x 70 7/8 in. (160.3 x 180 cm.)
Painted circa 1914-1917
