AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION
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Jul 12, 2022
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 594:
MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist Painter. A good and clean A.L.S., `Claude Monet
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Sold for: €2,000
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MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist Painter. A good and clean A.L.S., `Claude Monet
MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist Painter. A good and clean A.L.S., `Claude Monet´, two pages, written to the first and third page, purple ink, 8vo, on his printed stationery stating “Giverny par Vernon - Eure”, 5th December 1904, to a friend, in French. Monet explains to his correspondent that he only received few days ago the letter sent to him, saying `..j´ai reçu votre lettre du 28 Novembre que vous aviez adréssé en Seine et Oise, tandis que nous sommes dans l´Eure´ (“…I only have received your letter dated 28th November which you addressed to Seine and Oise, while we are in the Eure..”) Monet further refers to his correspondent´s proposal and to his own day by day, stating `J´accepte de grand coeur ce que vous me demandez bien que je sois dans l´impossibilité de vous aider en quoi que ce soit, vue ma vie retirée et mon éloignement de Paris, de plus j´ai grand peur de me trouver à Londres juste à l´époque du banquet…´ (“I wholeheartedly accept what you are asking me although I am unable to help you in anything, given my retired life and the distance I have taken from Paris, moreover I am very afraid of being in London just at the time of the banquet…”) Letter in very fine condition. EX
