The Seine at Vetheuil, 1881

Description:

Claude Monet (Paris 1840 - 1926 Giverny)
L’Inondation: La Seine à Vétheuil
1881
Oil on canvas
60x73.5 cm

Signature
Signed by the artist "Claude Monet" in oil paint lower left

Catalogue Raisonné
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné, Tome I: Peintures 1840-1881, no. 641

Provenance
Émile Straus Collection, Paris, his collection auctioned in
Auction Galerie Georges Petit, Émile Straus Collection, Paris, 3-4 June 1929, lot 60, acquired there by
André Charles Schoeller for
M. Decharme Collection, Paris
Dr Jacques Soubiès Collection, Paris, his collection auctioned in
Drouot auction, Paris, Collection de feu le Docteur Jacques Soubiès, 13 December 1940, lot 64
Auction Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 14 June 1957, lot 82, acquired there by
Jacques Koerfer Collection, Ascona, acquired there by
The Eberhard W. Kornfeld Collection, Bern, with the collector's stamp on the reverse of the stretcher, Lugt 913b

Literature
Oscar Reuterswärd, Monet, Stockholm 1948, p. 145, ill.
Véra Lindsay, Auge und Vision, Die Sammlung Jacques Koerfer, Basel 1972, cat. no. 6, ill.

Exhibitions
Bern 1977, Galerie Kornfeld und Klipstein, 112.5 Jahre Galerie, Kunstwerke von 1440 bis zur Gegenwart, cat. no. 29, ill.
Davos 1998-1999, Kirchner Museum, Werke aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 8, ill.
Vienna 2008/2009, Albertina, Wege zur Moderne, Aus der Sammlung Eberhard W. Kornfeld, cat. no. 2, p. 291, ill. p. 16/17
Vienna 2009/2010, Albertina, Impressionismus, Wie das Licht auf die Leinwand kam, p. 306, ill. p. 250
Martigny 2011, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Claude Monet au Musée Marmottan et dans les collections suisses, cat. no. 21, p. 185, ill. p. 75
Riehen 2017, Fondation Beyeler, Monet - Licht, Schatten und Reflexion, cat. no. 68, p. 175, ill. p. 68

Condition
In the old nailing. Slight rubbing in the corners and margins due to the framing. In very good condition

Comments
From the autumn of 1878 onwards, Claude Monet lived with his girlfriend Alice Hoschedé, her children and his sons in a house near the Seine in the commune of Vétheuil, in the Val-d'Oise department of Île-de-France, around sixty kilometres north-west of Paris.
On a sunny winter's day in 1881, bare trees and bushes protrude from the water of one of the flooded Moisson islands. Across the river, the village of Lavacourt is depicted with its houses and the village church. With his nuanced use of delicate brushstrokes and a graduated palette of blue, green, white and pink, Monet created fascinating effects of colour and light on the surface of the water and in the slightly cloudy sky. Monet was fascinated by the natural phenomena of the Seine. The atmospheric effect of the painting, with its vibrancy of colour including colourful shadows cast by the tree trunks, and the high degree of abstraction in the composition testify to Monet's modern and avant-garde approach to painting. His landscapes capture the changing seasons and vegetation in a unique way. Monet’s "impressions" of his surroundings, which were to give their name to an entire art movement, are impressive testimony to his mastery.

VAT
VAT on hammer price plus buyer's premium

Estimated Auction Time of Lot (+/- 15min)
13.09.2024; 13:40 h (CET)

Shipping cost
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