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CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume
signed and dated 'Claude Monet 1904' (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 5⁄8 x 39 5⁄8 in. (65.2 x 100.7 cm.)
Painted in 1899-1904
Provenance
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist on 30 October 1905.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, by whom acquired from the above in November 1905.
Mrs A. Stern, by whom acquired from the above on 23 December 1905.
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, by whom acquired from the above on 3 April 1919.
Adolph Lewisohn, New York, by whom acquired from the above on 10 June 1919, and thence by descent; his estate sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 16 May 1939, lot 261.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (no. A2155), by whom acquired at the above sale.
D.P. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, by whom acquired from the above on 16 May 1941.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (no. A4041), by whom acquired from the above on 14 December 1948.
Arde Bulova, New York, by whom acquired from the above on 3 June 1951 and thence by descent.
Literature
Letter from Claude Monet to Durand-Ruel, 20 October 1905.
Letter from Claude Monet to Durand-Ruel, 26 October 1905.
Letter from Durand-Ruel to Adolph Lewisohn, 17 June 1919.
‘La peinture impressionniste, Claude Monet 1840 à nos jours’, in France-Amérique, July 1919 (illustrated).
S. Bourgeois, The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculptures, New York, 1928, pp. VIII & 81 (illustrated p. 80).
L. Venturi, Les archives de l'Impressionnisme, vol. I, Paris, 1939, pp. 404-405.
O. Reuterswärd, Monet, En konstnärshistorik, Stockholm, 1948, p. 287.
G. Seiberling, Monet's Series, New York, 1981, no. 33, p. 374.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Peintures 1899-1926, Lausanne & Paris, 1985, no. 1582, pp. 178, 369 & 431 (illustrated p. 179).
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1582, p. 692 (illustrated p. 691).
Exhibited
Boston, Brooks Reed Gallery, Tableaux Durand-Ruel, October - November 1918.
New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Recently Imported Works by Monet, May 1919, no. 6, n.p.
New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Paintings from El Greco and Rembrandt to Cezanne and Matisse, January - February 1927, no. 21, n.p. (illustrated n.p.).
Basel, Kunstmuseum, on loan, 2012-2022.
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