Waterloo Bridge, London, Sun Effect · Claude Monet

Claude Monet

Waterloo Bridge, London, Sun Effect

1899/1901

Waterloo Bridge, effet de soleil

Oil on canvas

65 x 100 cm

Signed lower left: Claude Monet

Wildenstein 1593

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Durand-Ruel & Bernheim-Jeune Paris • March 1917 Acquired from the artist, Wildenstein no. 1593.

2Bernheim-Jeune Paris • 1918 Wildenstein no. 1593.

3Dr. Franz Burgers Genthod • Canton of Geneva • until [d.] 1930 Nachlass des Herrn Dr. F. Burgers, Sammlung und Inventar aus Schloss Malagny am Genfersee, (sale cat.) Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 25–26 August 1932, no. 207.

4The estate of Dr. Franz Burgers Genthod (Canton of Geneva) • 1930–1932/35 Sale catalogue as above, n. (3); the painting was bought in.

5Theodor Fischer Lucerne • 1932 until ca. 1942 Acquired from the above on 3 October 1932, E-Mail-Message from Archive Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, 13 March 2025; in 1935, Fischer offered the painting for sale, St. Galler und Basler Privatbesitz, Sammlung B., (sale cat.) Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 7 September 1935, no. 2344, but again, it remained unsold. The ownership of Theodor Fischer is corroborated by a letter from Emil Bührle to Professor Dr. Hans R. Hahnloser, Bern, 17 June 1942.

6Galerie Aktuaryus Zurich • 1942 Received in commission, or acquired, via an art dealer in Bern from the above, E-Mail-Message as above (n. 5) stating that Fischer tried to sell the work, AStEGB, Invoice from Galerie Aktuaryus made out to Emil Bührle, 15 June 1942.

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

Exhibitions

1949Impressionisten, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Vorläufer und Zeitgenossen Kunsthalle Basel • 1949 no. 154.

1950Europäische Kunst 13.–20. Jahrhundert aus Zürcher Sammlungen Kunsthaus Zurich • 1950 p. 27.

1952Claude Monet 1840–1926 Kunsthaus Zürich • 1952 no. 100.

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. 187.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 115.

2001Claude Monet und die Moderne Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung • Munich • 2001–02 pp. 60–61.

2002Claude Monet … bis zum digitalen Impressionismus Fondation Beyeler • Riehen • 2002 no. 18.

2006Turner e gli impressionisti, La grande storia del paesaggio moderno in Europa, Museo di Santa Giulia • Brescia • 2006–07 no. 254.

2009Claude Monet Von der Heydt-Museum • Wuppertal • 2009–10 p. 209.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich, Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 74.

2011Monet au Musée Marmottan et dans les collections suisses Fondation Pierre Gianadda • Martigny • 2011 no. 50.

2017Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l’Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 27.

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. 12.

References

1939Lionello Venturi Les archives de l’Impressionnisme Paris & New York • 1939 • vol. 1, p. 446.

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 72 (ill.; ²1986).

1981Grace Seiberling «The Evolution of an Impressonist» in Monet’s Series London • 1981 • p. 374, no. 38.

1985Daniel Wildenstein Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné vol. 4, Peintures 1899–1926 • Lausanne & Paris • 1985 • no. 1593 (ill.); vol. 4, Peintures 1899–1926, Lausanne & Paris 1985, pp. 336 (letter no. 2220), 431 (P.J. nos. 281, 288); ²Monet, Catalogue raisonné; Werkverzeichnis, vol. 3, Nos. 969–1595, Cologne 1996).

1993Marianne Alphant Claude Monet, Une vie dans le paysage Paris • 1993 • p. 617.

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

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 81 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog; Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

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. 93 (ill.).