Claude Monet
The Ball-Shaped Tree, Argenteuil, 1876
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Oil on canvas, 60,3 x 80,2 cm
signed, lower left: Claude Monet
Inv.-no. MB-Mon-36
The painting shows the lower end of the promenade at Argenteuil as seen from across the river at Le Petit Gennevilliers. Unlike the other Seine views he painted in this location showing bridges and sailboats, here Monet concentrates on the reflections of houses and trees on the surface of the water. The handsome villas bear witness to the prosperity of the Parisian upper middle class, who spent their summer holidays here. Like the Japanese woodcut artists he admired so much, Monet composed the river landscape in zones running parallel to the picture plane.
N.D., Frédéric Bonner, New York
April 10, 1900American Art Association, New York, lot 64, consigned by the above
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, acquired at the above sale
January 1928, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, acquired from the above
January 19, 1928, Alice Halphen, Paris, acquired from the above
June 15, 1938, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 78
Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, acquired at the above sale
August 1939, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, acquired from the above
May 27, 1947, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London, acquired from the above
by 1957, Sir and Lady Stephenson Kent, London
March 18, 1959, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, lot 8, consigned by the above
Private collection, Geneva, acquired at the above sale
June 19, 2006, Sotheby's, London, lot 22, consigned by the above
Private collection, US, acquired at the above sale
Christie's, New York, 12 May 2022, lot 32c, consigned by the above
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