Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., Paris, stock no. 6705/115090; purchased from Knoedler by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, as ‘Poplars’, 12 December 1921 (Fr. 4,500 [Fr. 45,000?]); sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.

Exhibition History

1892

Monet, Durand-Ruel, Paris, 0  1892 - 0  1892, cat. no. 11

1924

Inaugural exposition of French art, The California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco, 0  1924 - 0  1925, cat. no. 37

1924

Exposition Claude Monet, organisée au bénéfice des Victimes de la Catastrophe du Japon, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 4 January 1924 - 18 January 1924, cat. no. 23

1952

Monet, Kunsthaus, Zürich, 0  1952 - 0  1952, Paris, 1952, cat. no. 79

1952

Monet, Dienst voor Schone Kunsten, Den Haag, 0  1952 - 0  1952, cat. no. 65

1960

The Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 May 1960 - 10 July 1960, cat. no. 73

1962

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Hakutsuru Museum, Kobe, 20 October 1962 - 5 November 1962, P-210

1962

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Art Gallery of Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya, 17 November 1962 - 9 December 1962, cat. no. 38 (当館記録による）

1963

The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Shimane Prefectural Museum, Matsue, 5 October 1963 - 20 October 1963, P-210

1963

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, 26 October 1963 - 10 November 1963, P-210

1964

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Nakajima Sports Center of Hokkaido Prefecture, 22 August 1964 - 13 September 1964, cat. no. 13

1965

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa, 22 September 1965 - 10 October 1965, cat. no. 9

1965

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, 20 October 1965 - 7 November 1965, cat. no. 9

1966

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Wakayama, 15 October 1966 - 4 November 1966, cat. no. 8

1966

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Oita Prefecture, Oita, 12 November 1966 - 27 November 1966, cat. no. 8

1967

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Kagoshima Municipal Museum of Art, 28 April 1967 - 21 May 1967, cat. no. 8

1978

European Landscape Painting, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 September 1978 - 26 October 1978, cat. no. 75, repr.

1978

European Landscape Painting, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, 3 November 1978 - 15 January 1979, cat. no. 72

1982

Monet, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 9 October 1982 - 28 November 1982, cat. no. 40

1983

Claude Monet at the time of Giverny, Centre Culturel du Marais, 6 April 1983 - 31 July 1983, cat. no. 28, repr. color.

1986

Claude Monet: Painter of Light, The Auckland City Art Gallery, 27 April 1986 - 9 June 1986, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 June - 4 August; The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 13 August - 29 September, cat. no. 22. col. repr.

1986

Claude Monet, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 29 April 1986 - 30 June 1986, cat. no. 71, repr. color.

1986

Renoir et les impressionnistes, Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art, 23 September 1986 - 3 November 1986, cat. no. 71, col. repr.

1990

Monet in the 90’s: The Series Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 7 February 1990 - 29 April 1990, cat. no. 38, repr. color., The Art Institute of Chicago, 19 May 1990 - 12 August 1990, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 7 September 1990 - 9 December 1990

1992

Claude Monet: 1840-1926, La Salle Saint-Georges-Féronstrée (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège) , 13 March 1992 - 10 May 1992, cat. no. 24, repr. color.

1994

Monet: A Retrospective, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, 11 February 1994 - 7 April 1994, Nagoya City Art Museum, 16 April-12 June 1994, cat. no. 54, col. repr.(as"Les trois arbres, été")

2001

Monet & Japan, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 9 March 2001 - 11 June 2001, cat. no. 25, col. repr.

2006

Claude Monet: Effet de soleil - Felder im Frühling, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 20 May 2006 - 24 September 2006, cat. no. 36, col. repr.

2013

Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings, Pola Museum of Art, 13 July 2013 - 24 November 2013, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 December 2013-9 March 2014, cat. no. 59, col. repr.

2015

Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market, The National Gallery, London, 4 March 2015 - 31 May 2015, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 24 June-13 September, cat. no. 57 (fig. 13), col. repr.

2017

Hokusai and Japonisme, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 21 October 2017 - 28 January 2018, cat. no. 159, col. repr.

2019

The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 100, col. repr.

2022

In Dialogue with Nature - from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 June 2022 - 11 September 2022, cat. no. 79

Bibliography

1939

Venturi, L. Archives de l'impressionnisme. tome 1, Paris, 1939, pp. 341-344.

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 16, col. repr.

1961

Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-210.

1968

Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 2, 1968, pp. 13-14, no. 20, repr.

1971

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 50, repr.

1973

Tanaka, Hidemichi. L'inspiration artistique de Nymphéas de Monet. Bulletin Annuel du Musée National d’Art Occidental. No.6 (1971), 1973, pp. 33-43.

1975

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 34, repr.

1978

Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 42, repr.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 192, repr.

1979

Wildenstein, D. Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné. tome 3, Lausanne/ Paris, 1979, pp. 150-151, repr., 264 (letters to P. Durand-Ruel, nos. 1133, 1135, 1138); tome 5, 1991, pp. 48, 215 (lettre no. 3061).

1983

Gordon, Robert; Forge, Andrew. Monet. New York, 1983, p. 169, repr.

1985

Claude Monet: Painter of Light (exh. cat.). House, John. Auckland, Auckland City Art Gallery; NZI Corp., 1985, pp. 84-85, cat. no. 22, col. repr.

1986

Claude Monet, 1840-1926 (exh. cat.). Esteban Leal, Paloma; Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo. [Madrid], Ministerio de Cultura; Fundación para el apoyo a la cultura, [1986], pp. 334-335, 488, cat. no. 71, col. repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1068.

1990

Tucker, Paul, Hayes. Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings. Boston/ New Haven/ London, 1990, pp. 115, 118, repr., 121, 122.

1994

Monet: A Retrospective. Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation; Nagoya City Art Museum, eds. Nagoya, The Chunichi Simbun, 1994, pp. 170, 173, cat. no. 54. col. repr.

1996

Wildenstein, Daniel. Monet: Catalogue raisonné. vol. 3, Cologne, Taschen, 1996, p. 522, cat. no. 1305, repr.

2001

Monet & Japan (exh. cat.). Bromfield, David et al. Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2001, pp. 44, 102, 195, cat. no. 25, repr.

2006

Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2006 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 74, col. repr.

2006

Claude Monet: fields in spring(exh.cat.). Von Holst, Christian; Conrad, Christofer. et al., eds. Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2006, cat. no. 36, col. repr.

2009

Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 74, col. repr.

2013

MONET, An Eye For Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings(exh. cat.). Tokyo, TBS, c2013, cat. no. 59, col. repr.

2013

Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 88, col. repr.

2015

Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and The Modern Art Market(exh. cat.). London, National Gallery Company, 2015, cat. no. 57 [Fig. 13], col. repr.

2017

Hokusai and Japonisme (exh. cat.). Hakamata, Hiroyo; Ikeda, Yuko, eds. Tokyo, Yomiuri Shimbun; The National Museum of western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 202, 391, cat. no. 159, col. repr.

2018

The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 777, col. repr.

2019

The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 186, 189, 366, cat. no. 100, col. repr.

2022

In Dialogue with Nature: from Friedrich, Monet and Van Gogh to Richter (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Shinfuji, Atsushi; Yomiuri Shimbun, Museum Exhibition Department, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2022, pp. 158, 261, cat. no. 79, col. repr.

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