Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Ferme Normande sous les arbres
signed 'Claude Monet' (lower left)
pastel on blue paper laid down at the edges on paper
12¾ x 8.7/8 in. (32.4 x 22.5 cm.)
Provenance
Comte Jacques de la Lombardière, Giverny (acquired from the artist).
Anon. sale, Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, 21 November 1980, lot 64.
Frances Cain, Corpus Christi, Texas; estate sale, Christie's, New York, 15 November 1990, lot 113.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, Lausanne, 1991, vol. V, p. 168, no. P74 (illustrated).
Lot Essay
There is a pencil study of a man on the reverse of the sheet.
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