Claude Monet (1840-1926), Vétheuil

Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Vétheuil
signed ‘Claude Monet’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (65.5 x 92.2 cm.)
Painted in 1879

Provenance
Edmond Decap, Paris.
Charles Viguier, Paris; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 May 1906, lot 50.
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Lucien Sauphar, Paris, circa 1924; his estate sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 17 March 1936, lot 31.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York (no. 5306), by whom acquired at the above sale.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (no. 15839).
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (no. 1159), on consignment from the above, in October 1936.
Sir Victor Schuster, London, by whom acquired from the above in May 1937.
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London.
Lady Kroyer-Kielberg, London, by whom acquired from the above in February 1945.
Michael Kroyer, London, by descent from the above.
The Lefevre Gallery, London.
Triton Collection Foundation, The Netherlands, by whom acquired from the above in 1996.

Saleroom Notice
Please note this work has been requested for the forthcoming Monet & Architecture exhibition taking place at The National Gallery, London, from April - July 2018.

Pre-Lot Text
EXCEPTIONAL WORKS FROM THE TRITON COLLECTION FOUNDATION
Christie’s is honoured to be offering for sale a significant group of works from the Triton Collection Foundation, which continues to evolve and grow in new areas. The collection spans a range of artistic movements from early Impressionism through to Post-War art, establishing the Foundation as a leading institution to carry out its many philanthropic aims.

Over many years the Foundation has considered public access to its works as a fundamental pillar of its collecting ethos. A continuous dialogue with curators around the world and an extensive loan programme to over seventy museums globally has made this dream a reality and benefited exhibitions at the likes of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, the Seoul Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. These collaborations have ensured that an international audience has consistently had the opportunity to appreciate the quality and breadth of the collection, which stretches from classic Impressionism through to Surrealism and beyond to Post-War work by the major American artists. The sales of the major works in this season’s auctions will give the opportunity to the Foundation to continue its excellent, philanthropic work.

The last major de-acquisition from the collection took place in our salerooms in Paris in March 2015 when the Exceptional Works on Paper from the Triton Collection Foundation sale elicited huge interest from collectors and public institutions around the globe: Those works, which had been collected by its founders over many years, saw spectacular prices for top quality pieces by artists such as Camille Pissarro and Fernand Léger, further to the numerous world record prices achieved for works on paper by Claude-Emile Schuffenecker, Paul-Elie Ranson and Frédéric Bazille. This strong market reaction is in recognition of the eye with which they had originally been selected.

The group of works being sold across our Impressionist sales here in London includes seminal examples of French Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the European avant-garde, from Claude Monet’s luminous Vétheuil of 1879 to Jan Toorop’s resonating symbolist 1902 composition, Faith and Reward. Each of these works has been bought with a very discerning eye, and often the provenances of the pieces are as noble as the works themselves. We wish the Foundation great success with these sales as well as their future projects and continuous development of the Triton Collection Foundation.

Jussi Pylkkänen
Global President, Christie’s

Literature
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1840-1881, Lausanne, 1974, no. 527, p. 342 (illustrated p. 343).
D. Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Cologne & Lausanne, 1996, no. 527, pp. 206 & 207 (illustrated p. 206).
M. Clarke, 'Impressionismo. Quale crisi?', in exh. cat., L'impressionismo e l'età di Van Gogh, Treviso, 2002, p. 145 (illustrated p. 144).
B. Tempel, in exh. cat., Miracle de la couleur: impressionisme en post-impressionisme, Rotterdam, 2003, p. 158 (illustrated fig. 13).
S. van Heugten, Avant-gardes, 1870 to the present: The Collection of the Triton Foundation, Brussels, 2012, pp. 68 & 555 (illustrated p. 69).

Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Claude Monet, January 1924, no. 61.
Treviso, Casa dei Carraresi, Monet. I luoghi della pittura, September 2001 - February 2002, p. 98 (illustrated).
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Monet: The Seine and The Sea 1878-1883, August - October 2003, no. 13, pp. 66 & 67 (illustrated p. 67).
Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia, Monet: la Senna, le ninfee: Il grande fiume e il nuovo secolo, October 2004 - April 2005, no. 89, p. 310 (illustrated p. 311).
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum, Buitenleven. Franse negentiende-eeuwse landschappen uit de collectie van de Triton Foundation, July - October 2005, p. 20 (illustrated).
Brescia, Museo di Santa Giulia, Turner e gli impressionisti: La grande storia del paesaggio moderno in Europa, October 2006 - March 2007, no. 193, p. 362 (illustrated p. 363).
Tokyo, National Art Center, Monet: L'art de Monet et sa postérité, April - July 2007, no. 17, p. 63 (illustrated).
Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, Claude Monet: From Instant to Eternity, July - September 2007 (ex. cat.).
Passariano, Villa Manin, L'età di Courbet e Monet: La diffusione del realismo e dell'impressionismo nell'Europa centrale e orientale, September 2009 - March 2010, no. 84, p. 299 (illustrated pp. 106 & 299).
Tokyo, National Art Center, Van Gogh: The adventure of becoming an artist, October - December 2010, no. 69, p. 116 (illustrated p. 117); this exhibition later travelled to Fukuoka, Kyushu National Museum, January - February 2011, and Nagoya, City Art Museum, February - April 2011.
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Monet: au Musée Marmottan et dans les collections Suisses, June - November 2011, no. 16, pp. 184 & 185 (illustrated p. 65).
Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Avant-gardes: De collectie van de Triton Foundation, October 2012 - January 2013.
Verona, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verso Monet: Storia del paesaggio dal Seicento al Novecento, October 2013 - February 2014, no. 97, p. 453 (illustrated pp. 305 & 453); this exhibition later travelled to Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana, February - May 2014.
Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Monet and the Birth of Impressionism, March - June 2015, no. 90, p. 203 (illustrated).
Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard, Monet: Beyond Impressionism, August - December 2016, pp. 37 & 208 (illustrated p. 37).