Claude Monet (1840-1926), Pivoines

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Pivoines
stamped with the signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; lower left); stamped again 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; on the reverse)
oil on canvas
29 x 39 1/2 in. (73.7 x 100.3 cm.)
Painted in 1887

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Provenance
Michel Monet, Giverny, by descent from the artist.
Aimé Verneiges, Mandelieu, the grandnephew of the above, by descent.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (no. 5497), by whom acquired from the above in 1968.
Acquired from the above on 28 October 1968, and thence by descent to the present owners.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

Literature
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. III, 1887-1898, Lausanne & Paris, 1979, no. 1142, p. 94 (illustrated p. 95).
C. F. Stuckey, ed., Monet: A Retrospective, New York, 1986, p. 281 (illustrated; titled 'Garden at Giverny' and dated '1910').
D. Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, Cologne & Lausanne, 1996, no. 1142, p. 433 (illustrated p. 432).

Exhibited
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Claude Monet: Nymphéas, July - October 1986, no. 1, p. 171 (illustrated p. 17).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Claude Monet...up to digital Impressionism, March - August 2002, no. 4, n.p. (illustrated p. 27).
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Monet's Garden, October 2004 - February 2005, no. 32, pp. 56 &197 (illustrated p. 54).
Potsdam, Museum Barberini, Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, January - May 2017, no. 61, p. 239 (illustrated p. 183).