LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

28.74 in. (73.00 cm.) (height) by 39.49 in. (100.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

stamped with signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; lower right); stamped again with signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Nymphéas. L’abstraction américaine et le dernier Monet, April-August 2018, p. 66, no. 6 (illustrated in color, p. 67).

Literature:

D. Rouart and J.-D. Rey, Monet: Nymphéas ou les miroirs du temps, Paris, 1972 (illustrated; dated circa 1923-1925). D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 298, no. 1915 (illustrated prior to stamp, p. 299). D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. IV, pp. 915-916, no. 1915 (illustrated prior to stamp, p. 915). G. Morel, "Le cycle des nymphéas" in Connaissance des arts, March 2018, no. 808, p. 18-19 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Estate of the artist. Michel Monet, Sorel-Moussel (by descent from the above). Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris (acquired from the above). Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, by 1960.