LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

23 3?4 x 31 1?2 in. (60.3 x 80.2 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

New York, Pratt Institute, February-March 1903. Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Claude Monet, January 1928, no. 17. London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., Selected Paintings of All Periods by Claude Monet, April-May 1939, no. 3 (illustrated; titled Argenteuil). Edinburg, Royal Scottish Academy and London, The Tate Gallery, Claude Monet, August-November 1957, p. 48, no. 47 (illustrated, pl. 18h; titled Argenteuil). Geneva, Musée de l'Athénée, De l'impressionnisme à l'école de Paris, July-September 1960, no. 55. Lausanne, Palais de Beaulieu, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, May-October 1964, no. 40 (illustrated; titled Argenteuil). Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Chefs-d'oeuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso, May-October 1967, no. 35 (illustrated; titled Argenteuil). Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Impressionists at Argenteuil, May-December 2000, p. 136, no. 37 (illustrated in color, p. 137). The Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Claude Monet, July-September 2001, p. 52, no. 11 (illustrated in color, p. 53). London, National Gallery, Monet & Architecture, April-July 2018, p. 129, no. 123 (illustrated in color; detail illustrated in color, pp. 130-131).

Literature:

J. Fayard, "Paris a lutté hier contre Londres et New York" and M. Josse "En 19 minutes, 12 peintures de la collection Lady Kent adjugées 97.400.000 fr" in Le Figaro, 19 March 1959, p. 12. M. Sauvel, "Les faits de la vie" in L'Intransigeant, 20 March 1959, p. 9 (illustrated in situ at the 1959 sale). R. Wilhelm, "282 millions d'enchères pour des tableaux modernes à la Galerie Charpentier" in France Soir, 20 March 1959, p. 6. L.R. Bortolat, L'opera completa di Claude Monet, Milan, 1966, p. 95, no. 91 (illustrated; dated 1874). D. Wildenstein, Monet: Impressions, Lausanne, 1967, p. 21 (illustrated in color; titled La Seine à Argenteuil and dated circa 1874). D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1979, vol. I, p. 284, no. 397 (illustrated, p. 285). L.R. Bortolat and J. Bailly-Herzberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Monet, Paris, 1981, p. 97, no. 132 (illustrated). P.H. Tucker, Monet at Argenteuil, New Haven, 1982, pp. 156, 158 and 169 (illustrated, fig. 132; titled Houses under the Trees). D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. II, pp. 162-163, no. 397 (illustrated, p. 163).

Provenance:

Frédéric Bonner, New York; sale, American Art Association, New York, 10 April 1900, lot 64. Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale). Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, January 1928). Alice Halphen, Paris (acquired from the above, 19 January 1928). Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 June 1938, lot 78. Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired at the above sale). Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, August 1939). Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London (acquired from the above, 27 May 1947). Sir and Lady Stephenson Kent, London (by 1957); sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 18 March 1959, lot 8. Private collection, Geneva (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby's, London, 19 June 2006, lot 22. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.