ID 1108830 
Lot 31  | Claude Monet (1840-1926)
Valeur estimée
£ 2 000 – 3 000 
Autograph letter signed (‘Claude Monet’) to an unnamed correspondent, Giverny, 18 May 1900
In French. 2½ pages, 210 x 133mm, bifolium, on mourning writing paper bearing Monet’s Giverny letterhead. Provenance: Christie's, 6 December 1989, lot 346.
To a correspondent who has asked him to sign and retouch an old sketch. Monet expresses his willingness to sign a painting, ‘if it is worth it, but if it is only a sketch … the initials are more than sufficient’; he needs to check the painting, and suggests that his correspondent leave it with his dealer, Durand-Ruel. As for finishing the painting off, it’s impossible, not least because the effect of the passage of time on the colours: ‘I have sometimes agreed to do it to be pleasant, but I have decided to refuse completely for the future’; his correspondent should therefore keep the canvas as it is.
| Artiste: | Oscar-Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) | 
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| Lieu d'origine: | France | 
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Lettres, documents et manuscrits | 
| Artiste: | Oscar-Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) | 
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| Lieu d'origine: | France | 
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Lettres, documents et manuscrits | 
| Adresse de l'enchère | CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Royaume-Uni | |||||
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