LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

63.11 in. (160.30 cm.) (height) by 70.87 in. (180.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

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

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Katia Granoff, Les Grandes Evasions poétiques de Claude Monet, June 1956. New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas, October 1956.

Literature:

H. Kramer, “Month in Review” in Arts Magazine, vol. XXXI, no. 2, November 1956, p. 52 (illustrated). D. Rouart and J.D. Rey, Claude Monet: Nymphéas, ou les miroirs du temps, suivi d’un catalogue raisonné par R. Maillard, Paris, 1972, p. 170 (illustrated; dated circa 1918-1921). M. Potter et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: European Works of Art, New York, 1984, vol. I, pp. 46 and 141-142, no. 42 (illustrated in color, p. 142; illustrated again in situ in the Rockefellers' Hudson Pines home, p. 37). D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Peintures, 1899-1926, Lausanne, 1985, vol. IV, p. 254, no. 1790 (illustrated, p. 255). D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. IV, p. 844, no. 1790 (illustrated). D. Rockefeller, Memoirs, New York, 2002, pp. 447-448. J. Stourton, Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945, London, 2007, p. 114. J.-D. Rey and D. Rouart, Monet Water Lilies: The Complete Series, Paris, 2008, p. 132 (illustrated; titled Water Lilies).

Provenance:

Estate of the artist. Michel Monet, Giverny (by descent from the above). Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1955). Acquired from the above through M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York by the late owners, June 1956.