Water Lilies Pond, Green Reflection · Claude Monet

Claude Monet

Water Lilies Pond, Green Reflection

1920/26

Le Bassin aux nymphéas, reflets verts

Oil on canvas

200 x 425 cm

Studio stamp on the stretcher

Wildenstein 1979

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1The estate of the artist Giverny One of 20 canvases with a height of 2 meters, not used for the final installation of the Water Lilies paintings in the Orangerie des Tuileries in Paris, and subsequently kept in the studio in Giverny.

2Michel Monet Sorel-Moussel • Eure-et-Loir • 1926–1952 The artist’s son, Kunsthaus Zurich, Archive Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich, File «Exhibition Monet 1952», various correspondence with Michel Monet.

3Emil Bührle Zurich • ca. 19 May 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above during the Monet exhibition held at the Kunsthaus Zurich from 10 May to 15 June 1952, Kunsthaus Zurich, Archive Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich, Sammlungskommission, Minutes of 10 June 1952; the price paid was FF 1.5 mio. = CHF 18.750. As to the date of the acquistion, a ledger kept at the archive of Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon and listing all photographs made by the firm’s photography deparment, a date of 19 May 1952 is recorded for the photo taken of the painting at the Zurich Kunsthaus. For a detailed account of the transaction, along with Bührle’s slightly earlier acquisition of two Water Lilies paintings for the Kunsthaus Zurich, see Lukas Gloor, «Water Lilies by Claude Monet for Zurich», in The Emil Bührle Collection, History, Full Catalogue, and 70 Masterpieces, Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.), Munich 2021, pp. 197–203.

4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 73.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Exhibitions

1949Impressionisten, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Vorläufer und Zeitgenossen Kunsthalle Basel • 1949 no. 212.

1952Claude Monet 1840–1926 Kunsthaus Zurich • 1952 no. 113.

1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 188.

2004Monet’s Garden (Monets Garten) Kunsthaus Zurich • 2004–05 no. 71.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 73.

2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 64.

References

1972Jean-Dominique Rey • Denis Rouart Monet, Nymphéas ou les miroirs du temps Paris • 1972 p. 167 (ill. upper right).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 73 (ill.; ²1986).

1979Daniel Wildenstein Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné vol. 4, Peintures 1899–1926 • Lausanne & Paris • 1985 • no. 1979 (ill.; ²Monet oder der Triumph des Impressionismus, Cologne 1996, p. 437 (ill.); Monet, Catalogue raisonné; Werkverzeichnis, vol. 4, Nos. 1596–1983 et les Grandes Décorations, Cologne 1996).

1986Christian Geelhaar «’Le spleen de Giverny’» in Claude Monet: Nymphéas (exh. cat.) • Kunstmuseum Basel • 1986 • p. 115, n. 203.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 40 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

1998Michael Leja «The Monet Revival and the New York School of Abstraction» in Monet in the 20th Century (exh. cat.) • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1998–99 • p. 291, n. 10.

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 82 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

1999Pierre Georgel Claude Monet, Nymphéas Paris • 1999 • ill.

2006Pierre Georgel Les Nymphéas Paris • 2006 • ill.

2008Jean-Dominique Rey • Denis Rouart Monet, Les Nymphéas, L’Intégralité Paris • 2008 • p. 145 (ill. lower left).

2017Alex Weintraub «’Le centre est partout¹; ‹The center is everywhere’» in Calme et Exaltation, Van Gogh dans la Collection Bührle; Calm and Exaltation, Van Gogh in the Bührle Collection (exh. cat.) Fondation Vincent van Gogh • Arles • 2017 • fig. 18.

2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 237 (ill.).