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CHRISTIE’S TO OFFER MONET’S ATMOSPHERIC LONDON SERIES MASTERPIECE WATERLOO BRIDGE, EFFET DE BRUME 

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CHRISTIE’S TO OFFER MONET’S ATMOSPHERIC LONDON SERIES MASTERPIECE

WATERLOO BRIDGE, EFFET DE BRUME 

20TH / 21ST CENTURY: LONDON EVENING SALE

28 JUNE 2022

MONET.pngWaterloo Bridge, effet de brume (1904, estimate: in the region of £24 million)

  • Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume was last seen at auction in 1939 and has been in the same family collection since it was acquired by Arde Bulova, Chairman of the Bulova Watch Company in 1951. Prestigious early provenance also includes Paul Durand-Ruel, Adolph Lewisohn and the D.P. Allen Memorial Art Museum, at Oberlin College in Ohio
  • Of the 41 iconic paintings of Waterloo Bridge that Monet painted between 1899-1904, 26 are in public institutions, including The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; Bührle Foundation, Zürich; Art Institute of Chicago; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Kunstmuseum Bern. Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume was most recently on long term loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel
  • The sale of this London view follows the exceptional result achieved by Christie’s for Monet’s Le Parlement, soleil couchant, from the Collection of Anne H. Bass, which sold for $75.9 million in New York on 12 May, a record for a painting from Monet’s London series
  • Capturing the play of early morning sunlight from the East in a burst of yellow brushstrokes as the sun breaks through a misty haze, Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume is filled with a radiant glow and iridescence rarely found in the Waterloo Bridge series
  • This majestic painting by the leading French impressionist artist captures London’s enduring influence and position as a global cultural centre, and shows the dialogue between London and Paris in the art historical canon – celebrated in the Christie’s London to Paris sale format

LONDON AND PARIS – Claude Monet’s Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume will be a highlight of Christie’s 20/21 London to Paris sale series, offered in the 20th / 21st Century: London Evening Sale on 28 June. Depicting the Thames under an effervescent sunlit haze, Waterloo Bridge, effet de brume (1904, estimate: in the region of £24 million) comes from Monet’s monumental, landmark series entitled Vues du Londres (Views of London), which celebrates London’s unique character, architecture and ever-changing atmosphereThe artist focused on the play of light across the Thames through three principal subjects – Charing Cross Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, and Waterloo Bridge. In contrast to the bustling modernity of the Charing Cross paintings and the solemn grandeur of the Houses of Parliament compositions, Monet’s views of Waterloo Bridge stand as pure meditations on colour, light, and atmosphere, evocatively capturing the shifting character of the famous bridge under varying weather conditions at different times of the day.

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