DESCRIPTION:

CLAUDE MONET A.L.S. (Autographed Letter Signed) with Autograph Envelope. "Claude Monet" , 6 pages in-Octavo on mourning paper in violet ink; to his stepson Jean-Pierre Hoschédé.

From Giverny, dated September 29, 1911.

TRANSLATION:

GIVERNY PAR VERNON . EURE

September 29, 1911

My good J. Pierre, I did receive yesterday the good letter from Geneviève whom I thank to think about me, but as writing on a regular basis is not my strong point its to you that I want to write today to give you some news from Giverny and myself.

I have just spent some busy days

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with quite a few servant problems, a couple has settled yesterday, they look all right and I hope that it will work out. Anyway, this has kept me quite busy and (---) that this has kept me for thinking too much about my pain. Blanche has been here for two days to help instruct the people. She is always so nice for me. She is staying until Sunday, because the Butler will all go to Paris

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for the Fall Exposition. I also had Clémenceau et his Minister friend who came for lunch. It happened just the day when Jeanne had left and there was only the gardening lady to cook. It all went well all day long. Clémenceau was very jolly and as always affectionate. he had been hunting in Sologne and killed a quantity of partridges and 8 ducks in an afternoon. I must go have lunch at his home

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next week. Geoffroy will be there as well as Anquetin the painter and his (father) the ex butcher. He has invited all those ladies and gentlemen that will want to come with me. Only if (---) here with Geneviève. Aside from this nothing special here. Michel has left for lunch at his friend`s (Sainte ruek). Its her calendar day today

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and my poor Good one is not here, she used to spoil him so much and alas it will be hers the 2. What a heartbreak for all of us, how painful it is for me my dear J.P. We are cleaning the (hills) from this river for the summer. it will finally be possible to flourish her dear grave. But what a sad day for all of us that this one is. Alas we have to get used to it.

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My very dear J.P. I would not want to sadden you too much. But you know how much I loved her and how unhappy I am. Forgive me. I hope that you will continue to kill a lot, even though you don`t seem to have as much game as usual. I leave you while kissing you as I love you as well as my good big Geneviève.
My affectionate compliments to Mrs. Castaine and to Marcel who is all well I think. Your old man.

Claude Monet


ENVELOPE

Monsieur J.P. Hoschédé

Paujariage

Javeilhac

Dordogne


BIOGRAPHY:

Monet, Claude Oscar (1840-1926), French impressionist painter, who brought the study of the transient effects of natural light to its most refined expression (see IMPRESSIONISM).

Monet was born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, but he spent most of his childhood in Le Havre. There, in his teens, he studied drawing; he also painted seascapes outside with the French painter Eugene Louis Boudin. By 1859 Monet had committed himself to a career as an artist and began to spend as much time in Paris as possible. During the 1860s he was associated with the pre-impressionist painter Edouard Manet, and with other aspiring French painters destined to form the impressionist school—Camille Pissarro, Pierre Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

Working outside, Monet painted simple landscapes and scenes of contemporary middle-class society, and he began to have some success at official exhibitions. As his style developed, however, Monet violated one traditional artistic convention after another in the interest of direct artistic expression. His experiments in rendering outdoor sunlight with a direct, sketchlike application of bright color became more and more daring, and he seemed to cut himself off from the possibility of a successful career as a conventional painter supported by the art establishment.

In 1874 Monet and his colleagues decided to appeal directly to the public by organizing their own exhibition. They called themselves independents, but the press soon derisively labeled them impressionists because their work seemed sketchy and unfinish