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The artist's studio, with Gimpel Fils, 1950 from whom bought by Captain Sykes Captain S.W. Sykes, O.B.E., M.C.
Inscriptions/Marks
signature Position: lower right Method: Content: Claude Monet
label Position: stretcher Method: printed label Content: Ch. Pottier/ Emballeur/ 14 Rue Gaillon/ Paris (with MS number, and date) 5814, 30-10-35
label Position: verso Method: Content: James Bourlet label: No. 43305
stamp Position: stretcher Method: Douane stamp Content: Exportation, Paris on both stretcher and canvas
label Position: stretcher Method: MS label, graphite Content: #128, 158, in red chalk crossed out
label Position: stretcher Method: printed label Content: Marlborough Fine Art Ltd.,/ Nineteenth and twentieth century French/ Paintings from English private collections. June to July/ 1965 Cat. No. 25
number Position: stretcher Method: graphite Content: 499 and #255
label Position: frame Method: typed label Content: La littérature est assez sommaire: / Les peupliers / Ce tableau vient directment de l' atelier de Claude Monet, c'est lae plus beau tableau de Peupliers qui se trouve chez lui. On raconte que ces peupliers avaient été achetés par un marchand de bois et que Claude Monet lui avait donné de l' argent pour qu' il diffère l' abattage pour qu' il ait le temps de les peindre. Cela se passait vers 1895
label Position: attached to frame with wire Content: "Monet", "Les peupliers", "London", the rest illegible
Documentation
Geffroy, Gustave (1922) de Claude Monet, sa vie, son temps, son oeuvre, [page: 112]
Wildenstein, Daniel (1979) Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue reisonné, Lausanne [page: 299-300]
Stuckey, Charles F. (1985) Monet; a Retrospective, New York [comments: no. 1313]
House, John et. al. (1986) Monet, Nature into Art, New Haven & London: Yale University Press [page: 311]
Accession Number
PD.9-1966 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 2811; Input Date: 2000-03-08 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)
