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ALS in French, one page, 4.5 x 7, November 18, 1890. Handwritten letter to his friend Gustave Geffroy (1855–1926), a French journalist and art critic, replying that he cannot accompany him to London. In part (translated): "I am doing all sorts of work at home. Then I promised my brother to go to Rouen on Saturday and Sunday. Will you not be at the inauguration of the Flaubert monument." Affixed to a larger mount and in fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Monet's own hand, as well as an unsigned matte-finish portrait.
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, whom he met in 1886 in Belle-Île-en-Mer. Interestingly, Monet mentions the "inauguration of the Flaubert monument," presumably that erected by Henri Chapu in the small garden of Rouen's Musée de Beaux-Arts.
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