Live Auction 9160Impressionist and 19th Century Art (Day sale)
Lot 156

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Leicester Square, la nuit

Closed13 May 1999

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USD 420,500

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Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Monet, C.
Leicester Square, la nuit
stamped with signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; lower left)
oil on canvas
31 x 25 in. (80 x 64.2 cm.)
Painted 1900-1901

Michel Monet, Giverny.
Katia Granoff, Paris.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (1964).
Mrs. de Gryse, Brussels (circa 1970).
Anon. sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, 2-3 November 1971, lot 35 (as Londres la nuit).
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (circa 1973).
Georges Marci, Switzerland.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 June 1990, lot 26.
Daniel Malingue, Paris.

Specialist note

Monet painted three night views of Leicester Square in March 1901 (Wildenstein, nos. 1615-1617) from a window of a small room at The Green Room, a club on the corner of St. Martin's Street. These arrangements, obtained with the assistance of the artists John Singer Sargent and Asher Wertheimer, offered Monet a superb view of the square and the lights of the Empire Theatre. Due to fatigue followed by illness, Monet was unable to explore this subject as fully as he had intended.