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Property from a Private Collection, North America

Claude Monet

Église de Vernon, Soleil

Live auction begins in:

08:01:03

May 13, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, North America

Claude Monet

(1840 - 1926)


Église de Vernon, Soleil

signed Claude Monet and dated 94 (lower left)

oil on canvas

26 ⅛ by 36 ⅜ in.   66.4 by 92.4 cm.

Executed in 1894.

(possibly) Isidore Montaignac, Paris (acquired circa 1895)

George N. Tyner, Holyoke, Massachusetts 

American Art Galleries, New York, 1 February 1901, lot 70 (consigned by the above)

Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Henry T. Sloane, New York (acquired from the above on 8 January 1903)

Jessie Widener and Baroness de La Grange (acquired by descent from the above) 

M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above)

Alfred Schwabacher, New York (acquired from the above in May 1939 and until at least October1954)

Irène and Julian Raskin, Paris and Scarsdale (acquired by 1955)

Private Collection (acquired by circa 1975)

J. Barry Donahue Fine Arts, Inc., New York and Litchfield, Connecticut 

Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above on 20 July 1998)

Sotheby’s, New York, 4 November 2014, lot 30 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Paris, 1979, no. 1387, p. 181, illustrated; pp. 286-87, letter no. 1302

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Paris, 1985, no. 1387, p. 31, note 274

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1387, p. 575, illustrated in color

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Tableaux de Claude Monet, 1895, no. 27 (titled Vernon, Soleil)

New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Claude Monet, 1902, no. 25 (titled Vue de Vernon)

Glens Falls, Crandall Public Library, French Impressionist Paintings, 1939, n.n.

San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940, no. 288, p. 20 (titled Church at Vernon)