Claude Monet
Low Tide at Les Petites-Dalles, 1884
On view
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Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm
Signed and dated lower right: Claude Monet 84
Inv.-no. MB-Mon-16
Les Petites-Dalles is a small bathing resort near Fécamp that is known for its shining white cliffs. Claude Monet chose a perspective that emphasizes their monumentality. For him the cliffs were not just a motif, but also a projection surface for reflected water and sunlight. The strong contrasts of color heighten the dramatic effect of the scene, in which Monet indicated the bathers using just a few dabs of paint.
Painting of Various Schools, Union League Club, New York, March 1913, no. 19 (Highlands on the French Coast)
Cl. Monet, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, March 1923, no. 9 (Falaise à Pourville)
Cl. Monet, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 22–September 30, 1959, no. 40
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 21–May 28, 2017
Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, Denver Art Museum, October 20, 2019–February 2, 2020
Monet: Orte, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, February 22–July 19, 2020, no. 98
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
November 17, 1884, Galerie
Durand-Ruel, Paris, purchased from the artist
October 10, 1891, Charles T. Yerkes, Philadelphia, acquired from the
above
n.d., Emilie Grigsby, New York
January 25, 1912, Anderson Galleries, New York, collection of Emilie
Grigsby, lot 1154
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, acquired at the above sale, until 1949
n.d., Maurice Ferrier, Geneva
n.d., Acquavella Galleries, New York, acquired from the above
ca. 1986, Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst, New York
May 10, 2016, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 25, consigned by the above
Elmer Holmes Bobst, Bobst: The Autobiography of a Pharmaceutical Pioneer, New York 1973
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Lausanne 1979, no. 905, p. 132, ill. p. 133
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné. Werkverzeichnis, vol. 2, Cologne 1996, no. 905, p. 338, ill. p. 338
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017, no. 13, p. 92, ill. p. 105–6
Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, exh. cat. Denver Art Museum, Denver 2019, no. 98, ill. p. 211
Monet: Orte, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2020, no. 98, ill. p. 211
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