Wenn Claude Monet statt Alice Hoschedé Gertrude Stein geheiratet hätte oder eine Seerose ist eine Seerose ist eine Seerose No. 3. 1974.
Acrylic on canvas.
Verso of stretcher signed, dated, titled and with arrow indicating the direction in felt tip pen and reinforced in ball-point pen. 90 x 120 cm (35.4 x 47.2 in).
Alice Hoschedé was Claude Monet's second wife, they lived in Giverny as of the mid 1880s, where he had his famous garden. The American writer Gertrude Stein lived in Paris as of 1903, in one of her poems she coined the phrase "A rose is a rose is a rose".
The exhibition catalog listed below is part of this lot. [EH].

PROVENANCE: Collection Prof. Robert Häusser, Mannheim.

EXHIBITION: Rolf-Gunter Dienst - Bilder und Blätter, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen Schloß Morsbroich, 12 January - 26 February, 1978, cat. no. 3 (no. illu.).