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Claude Monet (1840–1926).

L.A.S. ‘Claude Monet’, Giverny [14 November 1887], to Gustave GEFFROY; 2 pages, 8vo, stamped envelope.

The item was sold for 49 400

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L.A.S. ‘Claude Monet’, Giverny [14 November 1887], to Gustave GEFFROY; 2 pages, 8vo, stamped envelope.

He got back to work: “I started on a bouquet of flowers, but it wasn’t turning out well at all; I had to put it aside and start again.” He’s thinking of going to Étretat when he returns from London and asks Geffroy to “draw up a shortlist of good authors for my son”; he’ll send him the money to buy them…