Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
ALS in French, in purple pencil, two pages, 5.25 x 8.25, Giverny Par Vernon Eure letterhead, February 8, 1917. Letter to an unidentified woman. In full (translated): “Because of the temperatures and the irregular…it will be impossible for me to be at your dear son’s funeral, but I wanted you to know how I feel for you and poor Genevieve. I went through similar calamities and I know what it feels like to lose a child, but for the mother the pain is even greater. I can only feel sorry for you and assure you that Blanche and I share in your sorrow.” In very good condition, with some mild wrinkling and creasing, thin vertical stains to both pages, one affecting first name of signature, “received” notation to top left, and all writing a shade light, but still completely legible.
Monet knew only too well the grief of losing a child. Widowed in 1911, he was still in mourning when his oldest son, Jean, suffered a stroke a year later and died in 1914. “I feel for you…I went through similar calamities and I know what it feels like to lose a child,” Monet, a grieving husband and father now in advancing age, notes of the tragedy of a parent outliving their child. He quickly adds to the recipient of this message, “for the mother the pain is even greater.” It was in the midst of all that tragedy that Monet found a renewed sense of motivation and creativity, realizing his last great period at Giverny, the French locale of his famed garden and studio.
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