The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller
Claude Monet (1840-1926)

La Seine à Lavacourt

Price realised USD 15,837,500
Estimate
USD 8,000,000 – USD 12,000,000
Estimates do not reflect the final hammer price and do not include buyer's premium, and applicable taxes or artist's resale right. Please see Section D of the Conditions of Sale for full details.
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Claude Monet (1840-1926)

La Seine à Lavacourt

Price realised USD 15,837,500
Closed: 8 May 2018
Price realised USD 15,837,500
Closed: 8 May 2018
Details
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
La Seine à Lavacourt
signed ‘Claude Monet’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
23 5/8 x 32 1/8 in. (60.2 x 81.5 cm.)
Painted in 1879
Provenance
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.), London (acquired from the artist, October 1879).
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, October 1894).
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York (acquired from the above, 1894).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1916).
Carnegie Institute, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (acquired from the above, March 1916).
Sam Salz, Inc., New York (acquired from the above, 1953).
Acquired from the above by the late owners, December 1953.
Literature
Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Permanent Collection of Paintings: Checklist, September 1936, p. 17.
Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Permanent Collection of Paintings: Checklist, February 1945, no. 196.
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1840-1881, Lausanne, 1974, vol. I, p. 100, no. 541 (illustrated).
M. Potter, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: European Works of Art, New York, 1984, vol. I, pp. 10 and 140-141, no. 41 (illustrated in color, p. 140).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné, supplément aux peintures, dessins, pastels, index, Lausanne, 1991, vol. V, p. 34, no. 541.
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonné, Cologne, 1996, vol. II, pp. 211-212, no. 541 (illustrated, p. 211).
A. Dixon, C. McNamara and C. Stuckey, Monet at Vétheuil: The Turning Point, exh. cat., University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 1998, pp. 58-59.
M. Clarke and R. Thomson, Monet: The Seine and the Sea, 1878-1883, exh. cat., National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2003, p. 87.
Exhibited
(possibly) Paris, 28 avenue de l'Opéra, Fourth Impressionist Exhibition, April-May 1879, no. 150.
Seattle, City Department of Fine Arts, World's Fair: Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition, 1909, p. 75, no. 272.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Paintings by Contemporary French Artists, January 1916, no. 57.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Impressionist Treasures from Private Collections in New York for the Benefit of St. Luke's Hospital Center Building Fund, January 1966, p. 27, no. 19 (illustrated; dated 1878).
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