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Currently not on display

Claude Monet

Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926

The Sea in Belle-Île

Date 1890-91
Materials and Techniques charcoal on paper
Size(cm) 23.4 x 31.5
Inscriptions Signed lower right: Claude Monet
Standard ref. Wildenstein D 443
Category Drawings
Collection Number D.1966-0002

Provenance

L'Art dans les deux mondes; Durand-Ruel, 1891; Moritatsu Hosokawa, Japan, 1926; deposited in NMWA, 14 July 1960, Dep. 60-19 (D-41); purchased by NMWA, March 1967.

Exhibition History

1906
Œuvre de Cl. Monet: 1894-1905, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 0 March 1906 - 0  0
1908
Salon jubilaire, La Libre Esthétique, Bruxelles, 1 March 1908 - 5 April 1908, no. 141
1909
Salon du Dessin, Liège, Belgique, 0 November 1909 - 0 December 1909
1973
Modern Japanese art and Paris, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 15 September 1973 - 4 November 1973, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 10 Novwember - 16 December 1973
1997
Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 28
2001
French Masterpiece Drawings from The National Museum of Western Art Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 27 March 2001 - 24 June 2001
2007
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 17 March 2007 - 10 June 2007, cat. no. 198, 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. 43, col. repr.
2017
Hokusai and Japonisme, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 21 October 2017 - 28 January 2018, cat. no. 169, col. repr.
2023
国立西洋美術館, The National Museum of Western Art, 18 March 2023 - 11 June 2023, cat. no. 38

Bibliography

1891
Mirbeau, O. Claude Monet. L'Art dans les deux mondes. no. 16, 7 mars 1891, p. 181.
1906
Duret, Th. L'Histoire des peintres impressionnistes. Paris, 1906, p. 19.
1921
Tarabant, Adolphe. Les peintres à la campagne. Bulletin de la Vie artistique. 1 septembre 1921, pp. 460-464, repr.
1924
Elder, Marc. A Giverny chez Claude Monet. Paris, 1924, pl. 29.
1928
Werth, Léon. Claude Monet. Paris, 1928, pl. 64.
1932
Yashiro, Yukio. Seiyo kindai kaiga ni tsuite. Bijyutsu kenkyu. no. 9, September 1932, pp. 1-25.
1948
Reuterswärd, Oscar. Monet. Stockholm, 1948, p. 173.
1960
Seitz, William Chapin. Claude Monet. New York, 1960, pp. 23, 33, 130, fig. 82.
1968
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 2 (1967), 1968, Nakayama, Kimio, preface; Kuroe, Mitsuhiko, catalogue. Claude Monet dans les collections japonais. p. 9, cat. no. 13. Catalogue of the New Acquisitions. pp. 98-99, no. P-359. repr.
1969
Sapego, Igor'Gavrilovich. Claude Monet. Leningrad, 1969, pl. 7.
1970
Kuroe, Mitsuhiko. Claude Monet. Tokyo, Shuei-sha, 1970 (L'Art Moderne du Monde, vol.2), ref. pl. no. 9. (in Japanese)
1970
Blunden, M.; Blunden, G.. Le Journal de l'impressionnisme. Paris, 1970, p. 210.
1970
Lindemann, G. Prints-Drawings, a Pictoral History. London, 1970, p. 302.
1972
Bortolatto, L. Rossi. L’Opera completa di Claude Monet: 1870-1889. Milan, 1972, no. 302, pp. 107-108.
1979
Monnier, G. Histoire d'un art: le dessin. Genève, 1979, p. 193.
1991
Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet: biographie et catalogue raisonné, t. 5, Lausanne/Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, c1991, p. 129, cat. no. D443.
2007
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings(exh.cat.). Ganz, James A.; Kendall, Richard. Williamstown; MAssachusetts; New Haven; London, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Yale University Press, 2007, cat. no. 198, col. repr.
2013
MONET, An Eye For Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings(exh. cat.). Tokyo, TBS, c2013, cat. no. 43, 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. 219, 391, cat. no. 169, col. repr.
2023
La Bretagne source d'inspiration: regards de peintres français et japonais (exh. cat.). Hakamata, Hiroyo, ed. Tokyo, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, 2023, pp. 71, 199, cat. no. 38, col. repr.

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