The monumental original French-language catalogue raisonné of Claude Monet, complete in five large-format volumes, including the important supplement and index volume.

Details

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

Author: Daniel Wildenstein

Title: Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné

Publisher: La Bibliothèque des Arts, Lausanne–Paris / Wildenstein Institute

Language: French

Format: Five large folio hardcover volumes with illustrated dust jackets

Publication dates: 1974–1991

Volume I: 1840–1881, Peintures — 1974, 461 pages

Volume II: 1882–1886, Peintures — 1979, 305 pages

Volume III: 1887–1898, Peintures — 1979, 312 pages

Volume IV: 1899–1926, Peintures — 1985, 443 pages

Volume V: Supplément aux peintures, dessins, pastels, index — 1991, 349 pages

Dimensions of each volume: approximately 38.7 × 28.8 cm / 15.2 × 11.3 in

Approximate combined weight: 17.3 kg / 38.1 lb before packing

The complete set contains approximately 1,870 pages and more than 2,700 illustrations, including color plates. Monet’s paintings are arranged chronologically with catalogue numbers, provenance, exhibition history, bibliography and related documentation. The fifth volume adds supplementary paintings, drawings, pastels and comprehensive indexes.

This is the original large-format French edition published between 1974 and 1991, not the later four-volume Taschen edition.

Condition

Complete set of five volumes.

The books and their contents are generally clean and well preserved. The pages and illustrations remain in attractive condition, with only minor age-related toning and handling wear.

The illustrated dust jackets show noticeable age and storage wear, including creasing, rubbing, surface marks and edge wear. Some areas have small tears, folds or losses, particularly around the spine ends and corners.

The hardcover bindings themselves appear generally well preserved. Please examine all photographs carefully for the exact condition of each volume and dust jacket. The set is sold exactly as photographed.

Comment

Daniel Wildenstein’s five-volume catalogue raisonné remains one of the fundamental reference works for the study and identification of Claude Monet’s oeuvre. The Wildenstein catalogue numbers established in these volumes continue to be cited by museums, auction houses, galleries and scholars throughout the world.

The fifth volume is especially important because it contains supplements to the paintings catalogue together with the catalogues of Monet’s drawings and pastels and the complete indexes.

An important and uncommon complete reference set for a Monet collector, art historian, museum library, gallery, auction specialist or professional art dealer.