Claude Monet
Floes at Bennecourt, 1893
On view
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Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm
Signed and dated lower right: Claude Monet 93
Inv.-no. MB-Mon-28
Although ice drifts on a large river often reflect the immense force of nature, Claude Monet showed them here, in delicately shaded colors, as a quiet moment. The juxtaposition of the reflection of the trees on the smooth surface of the Seine with the small ice floes seems to anticipate the water-lily pictures that would define Monet’s late oeuvre.
Claude Monet Memorial Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January/February 1927, no. 25
Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, February 7–April 29, 1990; The Art Institute of Chicago, May 19–August 12, 1990; Royal Academy of Art, London, September 7–December 9, 1990, no. 44
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 21–May 28, 2017
Rodin im Dialog mit Monet: Die gemeinsame Ausstellung im Jahr 1889, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, May 31–October 3, 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. 80
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
December 1893, Galerie
Durand-Ruel, Paris, purchased from the artist
1894, Guy de Cholet, Paris
1895, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
1905, Charles Harrison Tweed, Boston
ca. 1917, Mrs. Charles Harrison Tweed, Boston
ca. 1927, Mrs. Graham B. Blaine, Boston
n.d., Private collection
November 3, 1981, Christie’s, New York, lot 22
n.d., Private collection
December 3, 1985, Sotheby’s, London, lot 25
Private collection, USA, acquired at the above sale
December 2016, purchased from a private collection
Claude Monet: Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1927, no. 25
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 3, Lausanne 1979, no. 1334, p. 160, 275, ill. p. 161
Paul Hayes Tucker, Monet: Le triomphe de la lumière, Paris 1990, p. 168, 212, ill. p. 169
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 5, Lausanne 1991, p. 49
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné. Werkverzeichnis, vol. 3, Cologne 1996, no. 1334, ill. p. 542
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017, no. 81, ill. p. 217
Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, exh. cat. Denver Art Museum, Denver 2019, no. 80, ill. p. 191
Monet: Orte, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2020, no. 80, ill. p. 191
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