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Currently not on display

Claude Monet

Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926

Charing-Cross Bridge in London

Date c. 1902
Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 65.3 x 100
Inscriptions Signed lower left: Claude Monet
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. Wildenstein 1525; M779
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0154

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921 [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to (Claude Monet), dated 11 December 1921, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copy in NMWA curatorial file)]; 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

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. 17
1952
Monet, Dienst voor Schone Kunsten, Den Haag, 0  1952 - 0  1952, cat. no. 76
1952
Monet, Kunsthaus, Zürich, 0  1952 - 0  1952, cat. no. 98
1995
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Modern Japanese Art-Between the East and the West, 1 November 1995 - 30 November 1995, cat. no. 28, col. repr.
2002
The Dream of a Museum: 120 Years of the Concept of the 'Bijutsukan' in Japan, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 6 April 2002 - 23 June 2002, cat. no. 3-1-14, 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. 89, 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. 113, 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. 12

Bibliography

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-212.
1968
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 2, 1968, p. 18, no. 29, repr.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 194, repr.
1981
Seiberling, Grace. Monet's Series. New York/ London, 1981, p. 371, no. 13.
1985
Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné. tome 4, Lausanne/ Paris, 1985, pp. 160, 161, repr.; tome 5, 1991, pp. 52, 215 (lettre no. 3061).
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1070.
1995
Modern Japanese Art: Between the East and the West (exh. cat.). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed. [Nagasaki], Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, 1995, pp. 42, 138, 146, cat. no. 28, col. repr.
1996
Wildenstein, Daniel. Monet: Catalogue raisonné. vol. 3, Cologne, Taschen, 1996, p. 654, cat. no. 1525, repr. color.
2002
The Dream of a Museum: 120 Years of the Concept of the 'Bijutsukan' in Japan (exh.cat.). Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. [Kobe], Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art; Kobe Shimbun, 2002, pp. 122, 235, cat. no. 3-1-14, col. repr.
2013
MONET, An Eye For Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings(exh. cat.). Tokyo, TBS, c2013, cat. no. 89, 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. 779, 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. 198, 204-205, 368, cat. no. 113, 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. 73, 254, cat. no. 12, col. repr.
2024
Does the Future Sleep Here?: Revisiting the Museum's Response to Contemporary Art after 65 Years (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi; Mochizuki, Kaoru, eds. [Tokyo], Culture Convenience Club; Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 2024, pp. 66, 302, col. repr.

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