Lot 114
  • 114

Claude Monet

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Description

  • Claude Monet
  • PHILIBERT AUDEBRAND
  • pencil on paper
  • 31.5 by 21.5cm., 12 3/8 by 8 1/2 in.

Provenance

Michel Monet, Giverny
A. Daber, Paris
Sale: Sotheby's, London, 13th April 1972, lot 105
T. Mott-Smith (purchased at the above sale)
Sale: Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 20th March 1980, lot 17b
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Edinburgh, The Royal Scottish Academy & London, The Tate Gallery, Claude Monet, 1957, no. 2

Literature

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Milan, 1971 & 1974, no. 38, illustrated p. 90
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet Catalogue raisonné, Lausanne, 1991, vol. V, p. 149, no. D501, illustrated p. 147

Catalogue Note

From an early age Monet's reputation as a caricaturist spread through Le Havre and he earned pocket money from commissions to portray personalities from the town. The following three lots were executed in 1858 and are based on portraits of political figures that had been published in the Parisian newspapers.
The present work is a portrait of the journalist and one of the founding fathers of the Gazette de Paris.