LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
23 7?8 x 32 1?8 in. (60.6 x 81.7 cm.)
Description:
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Exhibited:
Paris, 28 avenue de l’Opéra, 4ème exposition de peinture, April-May 1879, p. 12, no. 160.
Literature:
M. Rostand, Quelques amateurs de l’époque impressionniste (thèse inédite de l’Ecole du Louvre), Paris, 1955, p. XVI. M. Bodelsen, "Early Impressionist Sales 1874-1894 in the Light of Some Unpublished 'Procès-Verbaux'" in Burlington Magazine, June 1968, p. 335. D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1974, vol. I, p. 264, no. 350 (illustrated, p. 265). R. Gordon and A. Forge, Monet, New York, 1983, p. 65 (illustrated). C.S. Moffett, The New Painting, Impressionism, 1874-1886, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1986, p. 269, no. 160. D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. II, pp. 144-145, no. 350 (illustrated, p. 145).
Provenance:
The artist; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 March 1875, lot 15. Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired at the above sale). Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 25 August 1891). Henri Vever, Paris (acquired from the above, 17 January 1893); sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-2 February 1897, lot 85. Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie. and Isaac Montaignac, Paris (acquired at the above sale). Gottfried Holthusen, Hamburg (acquired from the above, 13 January 1898). Richard Semmel, Berlin; sale, Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 13 June 1933, lot 21 (as Neige à Argenteuil) (unsold). Philippe Leary, Strasbourg and Paris. By descent from the above to the present owners. Please note that the present work is being offered for sale pursuant to a settlement agreement between the current owner and heirs of Richard Semmel. The settlement agreement resolves the dispute over ownership of the work and title will pass to the successful bidder.