
Claude Monet Agapanthus 1914-26
- MoMA, Floor 5, 515 The David Geffen Wing
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 6' 6" x 70 1/4" (198.2 x 178.4 cm)
- Credit
- Gift of Sylvia Slifka in memory of Joseph Slifka
- Object number
- 527.1992
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Claude Monet has 7 works online.
- There are 2,456 paintings online.
Installation views
We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.
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Monet’s Water Lilies
Sep 13, 2009–Apr 12, 2010
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Monet’s Water Lilies
Sep 13, 2009–Apr 12, 2010
1 other work identified
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Monet’s Water Lilies
Sep 13, 2009–Apr 12, 2010
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Monet’s Water Lilies
Sep 13, 2009–Apr 12, 2010
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Monet’s Water Lilies
Sep 13, 2009–Apr 12, 2010
1 other work identified
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Monet’s Water Lilies
Sep 13, 2009–Apr 12, 2010
1 other work identified
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Monet’s Water Lilies
Sep 13, 2009–Apr 12, 2010
2 other works identified
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515: Claude Monet’s Water Lilies
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This work is included in the Provenance Research Project, which investigates the ownership history of works in MoMA's collection.
The artist, Giverny; by inheritance to his son Michel Monet (1878-1966), Giverny, 1926 [1]; sold to Katia Granoff, Paris, by 1958 [2]; sold to Joseph and Sylvia Slifka, New York, c. 1958/1959 [3]; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (Gift of Sylvia Slifka in memory of Joseph Slifka), 1992.
[1] Per catalogue raisonné Wildenstein (no. 1822).
[2] Not in Wildenstein. Per letter Katia Granoff, Paris, to Alfred Barr, New York, April 26, 1958, Collection files, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Granoff likely acquired the painting in 1956. See Michel Leja, "The Monet Revival and the New York School Abstraction," Paul Hayes Tucker, ed., Monet in the 20th Century, exh. cat. Boston: MFA, 1998, p. 100.
[3] Included in the exhibition Claude Monet: Seasons and Moments, New York: The Museum
of Modern Art, March 9 - May 15, 1960, and Los Angeles: LACMA, June 14-August 7, 1960, no. 114 ("Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Slifka, New York").
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