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Property from the Descendants of Bertha and Potter Palmer

Claude Monet

Le Moulin de Limetz

Auction Closed

November 14, 01:23 AM GMT

Estimate

12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Descendants of Bertha and Potter Palmer

Claude Monet

1840 - 1926


Le Moulin de Limetz

signed Claude Monet and dated 88 (lower left)

oil on canvas

36 ¼ by 28 ¾ in. 92 by 72.9 cm.

Executed in 1888.

Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris (acquired directly from the artist on 31 December 1888)

Lulling Collection (acquired from the above on 31 August 1891)

Boussod, Valadon & Cie., Paris (acquired from the above on 31 December 1891)

Bertha and Potter Palmer, Chicago (acquired from the above on 10 May 1892)

Gordon Palmer, United States (acquired by descent from the above circa 1961)

Thence by descent to the present owners

Alphonse de Calonne, "L’art contre nature," Soleil, 23 June 1889, p. 1

Gustave Geffroy, Claude Monet: Sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre, Paris, 1922, p. 118

John Rewald, “Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. LXXXI, January-February 1973, pp. 63 and 98

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Lausanne, 1991, no. 2027-1210bis, p. 15, illustrated

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Cologne, 1996, no. 1210a, pp. 460-61, illustrated in color

(possibly) Paris, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Monet, 1889

London, Goupil et Cie., Monet, 1889, no. III

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Monet-Rodin, 1889, no. 119

Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, 2020-21, no. 50, illustrated in color