LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

24 1?4 x 29 1?4 in. (61.5 x 74.3 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

New York, The American Art Galleries and The National Academy of Design, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, April-June 1886, no. 184. Naugatuck, Connecticut, Tuttle House, Exhibition of Paintings, 1938, no. 14. Waterbury, Connecticut, Mattatuck Historical Society, Paintings from the Whittemore Collection, January 1941. Baltimore Museum of Art, Contrasts in Impressionism, November-December 1942, p. 20, no. 9 (titled Cliffs near Pourville). Baltimore Museum of Art, 1942-1948 (on extended loan). Kunsthalle Basel, Impressionisten: Monet, Pissarro, Sisley vorläufer und zeitgenossen, September-November 1949, no. 146 (titled Küste bei Pourville). The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Collects: European Paintings, 1860-1960, 1960, no. 210 (titled Cliffs near Pourville). Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, European Paintings in Canadian Collections: Corot to Picasso, February-March 1962. New York, Hammer Galleries, Impressionist Masters, May-August 2013, p. 26 (illustrated).

Literature:

L. Venturi, Les archives de l'Impressionnisme, Paris, 1939, vol. I, p. 268. O. Reuterswärd, Monet, Stockholm, 1948, p. 284. R.H. Hubbard, European Paintings in Canadian Collections, Toronto, 1962, vol. II, p. 155 (titled Falaises près de Pourville). L.R. Bortolatto, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Monet, Paris, 1981, p. 104, no. 245 (illustrated). D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1979, vol. II, p. 86, no. 782 (illustrated, p. 87). D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. II, pp. 291-292, no. 782 (illustrated, p. 291).

Provenance:

Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the artist, December 1883). Albert Spencer, New York (probably acquired from the above, 1886). Mme A. Holtz, Paris (by descent from the above). Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above). Harris Whittemore, Naugatuck, Connecticut (acquired from the above, May 1911); Estate sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 20 May 1948, lot 180. Emil Hirsch, Paris and New York (acquired at the above sale). Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich (by September 1949). Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above). Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Cummings, Montreal (acquired from the above, 1957); Estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 2002, lot 17. Private collection, California (acquired at the above sale). Anderson Galleries, Inc., Beverly Hills (acquired from the above, 2004). Hammer Galleries, New York. Acquired from the above by the late owners, February 2011.