Claude Monet Meules à Giverny

An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate

Claude Monet
1840 – 1926

Meules à Giverny
signed Claude Monet and dated 93 (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 ⅞ by 39 ½ in.
65.5 by 100.2 cm.
Executed in 1893.

Provenance:
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 2 December 1893)

Dwight Blaney, Brookline (acquired from the above on 4 March 1895)

Walter I. Nichols, Boston, 12-15 June 1945, lot 645 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Doll and Richards, Inc., Boston (acquired at the above sale)

Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above on 15 June 1945)

The Honorable and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, New York (acquired from the above on 4 January 1947)

Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above)

Joseph B. Ridder, San Jose (acquired from the above on 2 December 1953)

Virginia Ridder, New York and Santa Barbara (ex-wife of the above)

Christie’s, New York, 15 November 1983, lot 56

Private Collection, United States

Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner