CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926) Saule pleureur
stamped with the signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; lower right)
oil on canvas
130.7 x 110.5 cm. (51 1⁄2 x 43 1⁄2 in.)
Painted in 1918-1919
CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926) Saule pleureur
stamped with the signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; lower right)
oil on canvas
130.7 x 110.5 cm. (51 1⁄2 x 43 1⁄2 in.)
Painted in 1918-1919
Michel Monet, Giverny, by descent from the artist Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris Sylvia Bataille [Jacques Lacan's second wife], France, by whom acquired from the above in the 1950s Judith Lacan-Miller, Paris, by descent from the above Galerie Interart, Geneva, by whom acquired from the above in 1997 Galerie Daniel Malingue, Paris Private collection, acquired from the above on 14 May 1998; sale, Christie's London, 27 June 2017, Lot 14 Acquired from the above by the present owner
Letter from Claude Monet to Gaston or Josse Bernheim Jeune, Giverny, 24 November 1918 D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Lausanne, 1985, no. 1871, p. 280 ( illustrated p. 281) & letter no. 2290, p. 401 D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, Cologne, 1996, no. 1871, p. 888 (illustrated p. 887)
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the 20th Century, September - December 1998, no. 81, p. 284 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to London, Royal Academy of Arts, January - April 1999