Claude Monet
Houses of Parliament, Sunset, 1900–1903
On view
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Oil on canvas, 81,2 x 92 cm
signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 1903
Inv.-no. MB-Mon-38
Monet began his series Houses of Parliament while visiting London from 1899 to 1901 and continued to develop them in his studio in Giverny. The towers of Westminster Palace stand out as deep blue silhouettes against the red-violet sky, colored by the setting sun amidst the characteristic London smog. As in the work of his role models J. M. W. Turner and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, they appear before a dramatic, cloud-filled sky or dissolve into the fog.
May 1904, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, purchased from the artist
1907, Elizabeth and William Lowell Putnam, Boston, acquired from the above
n.d., Anna and Augustus Lowell Putnam, Boston, by descent from the above
until at least 1962, Katharine and Harvey H. Bundy, Boston, by descent from the above
n.d., Private collection, US
1982, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, acquired from the above
January 22, 1982, Anne H. Bass Collection, acquired from the above
May 12, 2022, Christie's, New York, lot 10c, consigned by the above
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