Christie's - June 20th, 2012 - Lot 3
Auction
Christie's London, King Street
Sale 5465 Impressionist/Modern Art Evening Sale
20 June 2012
Lot 3
Estimated GBP 1,500,000 - 2,500,000
Price Realized GBP 1,721,250
Painting
Bateaux devant les falaises de Pourville
Signed and dated 'Claude Monet 82' (lower left)
oil on canvas
60 x 81 cm
Painted in 1882
Provenance
Dr & Mrs Friedrich Salzburg.
M. Scapula, San Francisco.
F. & P. Nathan, Zurich.
J. Ferrer-Fort, Louisiana.
Royal Art Ltd., New Orleans, 1986.
Acquired by the present owner, circa 1990.
Literature
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1882-1886, Lausanne, 1979, no. 783, p. 86 (illustrated p. 87).
D. Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Catalogue raisonné, vol. V, Supplément aux peintures, dessins, pastels, index, Lausanne, 1991, no. 783, p. 40.
D. Wildenstein, Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, Cologne, 1996, no. 783, p. 292 (illustrated).
Exhibited
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, on loan, 8 March 1941 - 2 February 1943.