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Claude Monet (1840-1926)
- Le village de La Roche-Blond au soleil couchant

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Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Le village de La Roche-Blond au soleil couchant
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    £1,000,000 - £1,500,000
  • ($1,615,000 - $2,422,500)

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Sale 7831
Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale
2 February 2010
London, King Street

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Lot Description

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Le village de La Roche-Blond au soleil couchant
signed 'Claude Monet' (lower right)
oil on canvas
29 1/8 x 36 5/8 in. (74 x 93 cm.)
Painted in 1889

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

Provenance

Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, by whom acquired from the artist in June 1889.
Williams and Everett, New York, by 1891.
Mr. James F. Sutton, New York, by circa 1905.
Mrs. J. Sutton, New York, by descent from the above; sale, Plaza Hotel, New York, 16-17 January 1917, lot 154.
Durand-Ruel, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale, until at least 1948.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 11 June 1958, lot 287.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York.
Meredith Long, Houston, by 1961.
R.H. and Esther Goodrich, Austin, Texas, by whom acquired from the above circa 1962, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 2006, lot 11.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

'Claude Monet Exhibit Opens', in Boston Post, 15 March 1905.
A. Alexandre, Claude Monet, Paris, 1921, p. 88.
(probably) C. Geffroy, Claude Monet, sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre, Paris, 1922, p. 118.
J. Rewald, 'Theo van Gogh, Goupil and the Impressionists', in Gazette des Beaux Arts, January - February 1973, p. 100 (appendix I).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Lausanne and Paris, 1979, no. 1237, pp. 126 and 244 in letter no. 950 (illustrated p. 127).
D. Wildenstein, Monet, vie et oeuvre, vol. V, Lausanne and Paris, 1991, pp. 47, 114, D. 374.
D. Wildenstein, Monet, catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1237 (illustrated p. 472, with the incorrect provenance and location).

Exhibited

(probably) Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Monet-Rodin, June - July 1889, no. 140.
Boston, Copley Hall, Monet-Rodin, March 1905, no. 77.
Boston, Brooks Reed Gallery, 1920.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Claude Monet, 1931, no. 87.
Tokyo, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Monet: A Retrospective, February - April 1994, no. 50; this exhibition later travelled to Nagoya, City Art Museum, April - June 1994 and Hiroshima, Museum of Art, June - July 1994.
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, on loan, 1962-1964.
Houston, Kindcaid School, on loan, 1964.
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, on loan, 1980-2006.

Lot Notes

Marie-Christine Decroocq of the Wildenstein Institute has assisted with clarifying the provenance of this work.

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