MONET, Claude (1840-1926). Autograph letter to an unidentified correspondent [his wife, Alice], Savoy Hotel, London, n.d. [?15 February 1900], 2 pages, 8vo, and one page, 4to , on a bifolium. Monet complains of lack of time as owing to the weather he has been working on ten paintings that day, three of them at [Chelsea?] hospital, 'me sortirai-je de cette quantit de toiles'. He would be happy to succeed with a quarter or fewer: 'Mais ce temps londonien m'oblige commencer tant de toiles ...'. He mentions a meeting with his son Michel, and goes on to describe the celebrations following news of successive defeats of the Boers in the South African War - 'Eh bien j'ai t stupfi de la fbrilit de ces anglais d'ordinaire si froids' - commenting with sympathy - 'Pauvres Boers' - on the Boer cause. Monet ends by observing that he has received a permit to work in the Tower of London, but he doubts whether he will be able to take advantage of it. Monet made three successive visits to London (where Michel was studying at the time) in the years 1899 to 1901, when he worked upon his notable series of Views of the Thames , first shown, after three years' additional work at Giverny, at the Durand-Ruel gallery in 1904.
MONET, Claude (1840-1926). Autograph letter to an unidentified correspondent [his wife, Alice], Savoy Hotel, London, n.d. [?15 February 1900], 2 pages, 8vo, and one page, 4to , on a bifolium. Monet complains of lack of time as owing to the weather he has been working on ten paintings that day, three of them at [Chelsea?] hospital, 'me sortirai-je de cette quantit de toiles'. He would be happy to succeed with a quarter or fewer: 'Mais ce temps londonien m'oblige commencer tant de toiles ...'. He mentions a meeting with his son Michel, and goes on to describe the celebrations following news of successive defeats of the Boers in the South African War - 'Eh bien j'ai t stupfi de la fbrilit de ces anglais d'ordinaire si froids' - commenting with sympathy - 'Pauvres Boers' - on the Boer cause. Monet ends by observing that he has received a permit to work in the Tower of London, but he doubts whether he will be able to take advantage of it. Monet made three successive visits to London (where Michel was studying at the time) in the years 1899 to 1901, when he worked upon his notable series of Views of the Thames , first shown, after three years' additional work at Giverny, at the Durand-Ruel gallery in 1904.
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