Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Londres, Bateaux sur la Tamise

Details

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Londres, Bateaux sur la Tamise
with the stamped signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b) (lower right)
pastel on paper
12 x 18 1/8in. (30.5 x 46cm.)
Executed in 1901

Provenance

Michel Monet, Giverny.
M. et Mme. T. Bennahum, circa 1960.
Anon. sale, Galliera, Paris, 27 Nov. 1974, lot 27.
Wildenstein, Paris.
Jean-Claude Bellier, Paris.

Literature

D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet catalogue raisonné, Vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, p. 175, no. P104 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Ch.E. Slatkin Galleries, Claude Monet and the Giverny Artists, March-April 1960, no. 5.

Lot Essay

This pastel as well as lot 117 belong to a group of pastels Monet exeucted in January and February 1901 during his stay in London. Acccording to Wildenstein the present work shows the view from his hotel room in the Savoy Hotel on to Charing Cross Bridge.

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