Claude Monet

Claude Monet
Le Jardin de Monet à Giverny, 1895
Oil on canvas, 81.5 x 92 cm
Signed and dated lower right: Claude Monet / 95
Wildenstein no. 1420
Provenance
Durand-Ruel & Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1920) (1) ▪ Durand-Ruel, Paris (1922) (2) ▪ Dr. Julius Elias,
Berlin (by 1924) (3) ▪ Art market, Switzerland (by 1941) (4) ▪ Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich (by 1941)
(5) ▪ Emil Bührle, Zurich (7 March 1941) (6) ▪ Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 72 (1960).
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Acquired from the artist, Wildenstein no. 1420.
Wildenstein no. 1420.
Wildenstein no. 1420.
Archive Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am Römerholz", Winterthur, Letter from W. S. Kundig, Geneva, to Oskar
Reinhart, Winterthur, 7 February 1941, accompanying photographs (sent back later) of two paintings which
he has to offer, among which 1 Monet, the size of which is annotated by Reinhart's secretary: "80 x 91". On
14 November 1941, Reinhart visits Emil Bührle in Zurich, and comments in his diary the pictures he has seen
in Bührle's house; he lists a "Monet, Frau in Garten" and identifies it with "Kundig, Genf", Archive as above,
Notizbuch 51, vol. 1, p. 170.
(5) AStEGB, Receipted invoice from Galerie Aktuaryus made out to Emil Bührle, 5 March 1941.
(6) Acquired from the above for CHF 16.800, Receipted invoice as above, n. (5), receipt dated 7 March 1941.
Exhibitions
Paintings by Modern French Masters, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York 1921, no. 19. ▪ Výstava
francouszského umĕní XIX. a XX. stoleti, Spolku Výtvarných Umĕlců Mánes (Art français des XIX et
XX siècles, Hôtel de Ville), Prague 1923, no 91. ▪ Peinture française, Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich 1941,
no. 14. ▪ Ausländische Kunst in Zürich, Kunsthaus Zürich 1943, no. 614. ▪ Claude Monet 1840–1926,
Kunsthaus Zurich 1952, no. 89. ▪ Monet, I luoghi della pittura, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso 2001–02,
no. 66. ▪ Monet's Garden (Monets Garten), Kunsthaus Zurich 2004–05, no. 33. ▪ Gärten, Ordnung,
Inspiration, Glück, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main 2006–07, no. 79. ▪ L'art de Monet et sa postérité,
National Art Center, Tokyo 2007, no. 27. ▪ Monet's Garden in Giverny, Inventing the Landscape,
Musée des Impressionnismes, Giverny 2009, no. 10.
References
Lionello Venturi, Les archives de l'impressionnisme, Paris & New York 1939, vol. 1, p. 455. ▪ Galerie
und Sammler (9) 1941, p. 79 (ill.). ▪ Claire Joyes, Monet at Giverny, London & New York 1975, p. 66
(ill.). ▪ Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, L'Opera completa di Claude Monet 1870–1889, Milan 1972, no. 122
(ill.; 21978; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk von Monet 1870–1889, Lucerne etc. 1972). ▪ Daniel
Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 3, Peintures 1887–1898,
Lausanne & Paris 1979, no. 1420 (ill.), pp. 287–288 (letters nos. 1304, 1306, 1307, 1314), 302 (P.J.
nos. 145, 146); vol. 4, Peintures 1899–1926, Lausanne & Paris 1985, p. 404 (letters nos. 2331,
2337; 2Monet, Catalogue raisonné; Werkverzeichnis, vol. 3, Nos. 969–1595), Cologne 1996). ▪ Lisa
Melandri, "Points of Origin, Interview with Mickalene Thomas", in Mickalene Thomas, Origin of the
Universe, (exh. cat.) Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (California) etc. 2012–13, p. 34,
fig. 9. ▪ Mette Bøgh Jensen, "The grammar of colour, The Skagen painter Laurits Tuxen and the 19th
century theory of colour", in Tuxen, Colour, Countryside and Crown, (exh. cat.) Skagens Museum
(etc.) 2014, pp. 114–115, fig. 8.
Status as per January 2016
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Catalogues of the Bührle collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 72; 1973/86, no. 71; 1994/95, p. 39;
2004/05, no. 80. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle collection: Zurich 1958, no. 185; Edinburgh 1961, no.
44: London 1961, no. 44; Zurich 2010, no. 72.
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Status as per January 2016
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