LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

51.38 in. (130.50 cm.) (height) by 34.96 in. (88.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

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

Exhibited:

Kunsthaus Zürich and The Hague, Dienst voor Schone Kunsten, Claude Monet, May-September 1952, p. 24, no. 122 and no. 89, respectively (titled Nymphéas à travers les arbres, fond du bassin and with inverted dimensions [Zürich]; titled Waterlelies, in de tuin te Giverny [The Hague]).

Literature:

D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 284, no. 1881 (illustrated prior to stamp, p. 285). D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. IV, p. 893, no. 1881 (illustrated prior to stamp).

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.