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ALS in pencil, in French, two pages, 5 x 7, Giverny par Vernon letterhead, July 6, 1914. Handwritten letter to his friend, the author Lucien Descaves, arranging a meeting. In full (translated): "It's agreed for Thursday morning. You are to catch the 8:32 train at St. Guyner par Vernon, where you will find my car. I am working very hard at the moment, but I take a rest from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. You are not bothering me at all and I will be delighted to see you and Mrs. Descaves. I have written to [Gustave] Geffroy, and I hope he is not in ill health. In all friendship and see you Thursday." Impressively cloth-matted and framed with a portrait to an overall size of 26.5 x 18. In fine condition.
Claude Monet with his family to Giverny in 1883 where he enjoyed continued artistic and commercial success for the rest of his life. His friend, Lucien Descaves, was also a great creative mind. A novelist and founding member of the Académie Goncourt, a French literary society founded in opposition to Académie française, Descaves was a frequent visitor to Monet's house at Giverny. Gustave Geffroy, who Monet mentions in the letter, was an author and art critic as well as a fellow founding member of Académie Goncourt who admired Monet. Geffroy was one of the first historians of the Impressionist art movement, with his publication of Histoire de l'impressionnisme in 1892, and a loyal champion of Claude Monet. The letter provides important evidence of how these three creative minds arranged time together for the exchange of artistic ideas.
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