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Monet's Waterloo Bridge, between mist and light, on sale in London at the end of June

2022-05-31T14:44:30.293Z


Dated 1904, the impressionist canvas should evaporate at tens of millions of dollars at Christie's, less than a month after the sale at 75.9 million of a view of the British Parliament signed by the same painter.


Its price, as vaporous as the English mist, discreetly displays

"on request",

on the site of the auction house Christie's.

The British press is more eloquent:

Waterloo Bridge, fog effect

, one of the 41 views of the London bridge painted by Claude Monet between 1900 and 1904, was valued at nearly 30 million dollars (approximately 28 million euros) .

This is a starting price.

Held since the 1950s by a collector who lent it ten years ago to the Kunstmuseum in Basel, the impressionist painting is about to go under a hammer in London on Tuesday, June 28.

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The paintings by the French painter devoted to the battle of drizzle,

fog

and sun around Waterloo Bridge rarely venture to auction.

More than half are kept by museums and a dozen paintings are part of private collections that are unlikely to part with them anytime soon.

The rest can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Last year, a

Waterloo Bridge, fog effect

dated 1903 was sold for 48.5 million dollars.

Same subject, but completely different painting: its blue shades of France in the heart of the British capital, veiled in heavy vapours, clearly stand out from the moment bathed in light captured by Monet in his

Fog Effect

.

As with Rouen Cathedral, the artist produced dozens of variations of the English bridge, playing on the more or less pronounced changes in time and weather.

Impression at the misty bridge

“The series of London paintings

(by Monet, editor's note)

are probably among the most emblematic views he painted.

They have a considerable character

, underlined for the British daily newspaper

The Guardian

the art historian Keith Gill, at the head of the department of modern and impressionist art at Christie's.

The whole is entirely devoted to the work of color, light and atmosphere.

This spring seems to be favorable to fine Impressionist sales, as evidenced by the sale in New York, on May 12, of a view of the British Parliament at sunset, painted by Monet in 1903, for 75.9 million dollars.

Dated 1904, after the artist's signature,

Le Pont de Waterloo, a mist effect

soon to be on sale at Christie's, was once owned by art dealer and gallery owner Paul Durand-Ruel, who played a major in the dissemination of impressionist painters.

The painting is one of the last of Monet's series devoted to the London bridge inaugurated in 1817. Before him, John Constable, William Turner and James Whistler had also been seduced by the granite arches thrown over the Thames and named named after the final victory of the Allies against Napoleon.

The stone muse sung by Monet and the greatest British painters of the 19th century was demolished in the 1930s and replaced the following decade by a reinforced concrete construction.

Source: lefigaro

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