The club rejected an offer to sell the painting for $7.2 million three years ago as it struggled with pandemic operating losses and shrinking membership.
A painting by French impressionist Claude Monet, “Apple Trees in Blossom,” is displayed at the Union League Club in Chicago on May 20, 2014. The storied Union League Club of Chicago is selling its two most valuable paintings to raise money for a planned $10 million renovation of its nearly century-old Loop building.
In addition to the Monet work, the club is selling “Land of Manana,” a Native American scene painted in 1917 by Walter Ufer, a German-born, Kentucky-raised artist who worked for a time in Chicago, but made his mark with depictions of the Southwest. The club has hired New York-based Winston Art Group to handle the sale of both paintings.
Completed in 1872, “Apple Trees in Blossom” captures a bucolic French lane in springtime meandering through blooming white foliage. The 23-by-29-inch painting was loaned to the Art Institute for a 2020 Monet exhibition, but for much of its history has been quietly tucked away in a second floor cove at the Union League Club.
The Union League Club’s influential membership once included such luminaries as architect Daniel Burnham, whose 1909 Plan of Chicago shaped the development of the city, its parks system and its open lakefront.
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