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MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) Monet provides a list of over thirty subscribers for the purchase of Manet
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MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist painter. An excellent A.L.S., Claude Monet, two pages (written to the first and final sides of the bifolium), 8vo, Giverny par Vernon, Eure, 17th October 1889, to [Henri] Guérard, in French. Monet writes in his characteristic bold purple ink and states, in full, ´Je m´occupe d´une souscription que nous faisons entre amis et admirateurs de Manet pour acheter son Olympia et l´offrir au Louvre. C´est le plus bel hommage que nous puissions rendre à la memoire de notre ami et c´est en meme temps une facon discrète de venir en aide a Madame Manet puisque c´est à elle qu´appartient l´Olympia, J´ai pensé que vous seriez heureux de vous joindre a nous en prenant part a cette manifestation. Je vous demande donc de me repondre le plus tot possible en me disant pour quelle somme. Je dois vous inscrire et si de votre coté vous connaissez d´autres personnes suceptibles de souscrire vous seriez bien aimable de vous en occuper ou de me donner leurs adresses. Car il se peut que j´ai oublié des noms´ (Translation: ´I am in charge of a subscription that we, friends and admirers of Manet, are making to buy his Olympia and offer it to the Louvre. It is the finest tribute we can pay to the memory of our friend and at the same time a discreet way of helping Madame Manet, since she is the owner of the Olympia. I thought you would be happy to join us in this endeavour. Please let me know as soon as possible how much you would like to contribute. I have to register you and if you know of anyone else who might be interested in subscribing, please take care of it or give me their addresses. I may have forgotten some names´) and in a postscript further adds ´Inclue la liste des souscriptions a ce jour. La somme à réaliser est 20,000 fr´ (Translation: ´Included is the list of subscriptions to date. The target amount is 20,000 francs´). Together with Monet´s autograph list of subscribers, one page, 4to, headed ´Souscription pour acheter l´Olympia à Madame Manet et l´offrir au Louvre´ (Translation: ´Subscription to buy the Olympia from Mrs Manet and offer it to the Louvre´) and featuring an alphabetical list of thirty-four subscribers and the individual amounts that they have donated, totalling some 15,025 Francs at the date of the letter, 17th October 1889. Among the subscribers are Monet himself, who is recorded as having given 1,000 Francs, as well as other artists, writers, art collectors and gallery owners including Paul-Albert Besnard (100 Francs), Jacques-Émile Blanche (500 Francs), Giovanni Boldini (1,000 Francs), Félix Bracquemond (50 Francs), Gustave Caillebotte (1,000 Francs), Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (50 Francs), Emmanuel Chabrier (50 Francs), Jules Chéret (100 Francs), Théodore Duret (1,000 Francs), Paul Durand-Ruel (200 Francs), Gustave Geffroy (25 Francs), Paul Gallimard (200 Francs), Joris-Karl Huysmans (25 Francs), Octave Mirbeau (300 Francs), Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (500 Francs), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (300 Francs), Jean-Francois Raffaelli (100 Francs), Alfred Philippe Roll (500 Francs), Henri Rouart (1,000 Francs), John Singer Sargent (1,000 Francs) and others. A letter of fine content accompanied by the historically important list of subscribers solicited by Monet. The letter with a neat split to the upper edge of the central vertical fold of the bifolium and the manuscript list with a couple of similar neat splits to the edges of the folds and with some light dust staining and minor creases to the edges. About VG, 2Henri Guérard (1846-1897) French painter and printmaker. A friend of Edouard Manet, Guérard posed for one of the artist´s paintings, Au Café, with the actress Ellen Andrée in 1879. Manet´s Olympia (1863) was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon where it immediately caused controversy. The subject of the painting, Olympia, is a white prostitute, seen reclining in a full-length naked pose on her bed, while being attended to by her black maid. Olympia´s confrontational gaze towards the viewer sparked shock amongst the public in 1865, however the painting later became appreciated as one of Manet´s masterpieces. This was certainly the opinion of Monet, who played the greatest part in the campaign intended to have Olympia purchased through subscription and then to have it accepted by the French government for display in the Louvre. Monet´s campaign commenced in 1889 and by February 1890 the artist had raised around 20,000 francs for the acquisition of the painting. However, French law prevented the Louvre from exhibiting works until their creators were ten years deceased (Manet died in 1883) and therefore Olympia was first kept in the Musée du Luxembourg. It finally entered the Louvre in 1907, fulfilling Monet´s wishes.
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MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist painter. An excellent A.L.S., Claude Monet, two pages (written to the first and final sides of the bifolium), 8vo, Giverny par Vernon, Eure, 17th October 1889, to [Henri] Guérard, in French. Monet writes in his characteristic bold purple ink and states, in full, ´Je m´occupe d´une souscription que nous faisons entre amis et admirateurs de Manet pour acheter son Olympia et l´offrir au Louvre. C´est le plus bel hommage que nous puissions rendre à la memoire de notre ami et c´est en meme temps une facon discrète de venir en aide a Madame Manet puisque c´est à elle qu´appartient l´Olympia, J´ai pensé que vous seriez heureux de vous joindre a nous en prenant part a cette manifestation. Je vous demande donc de me repondre le plus tot possible en me disant pour quelle somme. Je dois vous inscrire et si de votre coté vous connaissez d´autres personnes suceptibles de souscrire vous seriez bien aimable de vous en occuper ou de me donner leurs adresses. Car il se peut que j´ai oublié des noms´ (Translation: ´I am in charge of a subscription that we, friends and admirers of Manet, are making to buy his Olympia and offer it to the Louvre. It is the finest tribute we can pay to the memory of our friend and at the same time a discreet way of helping Madame Manet, since she is the owner of the Olympia. I thought you would be happy to join us in this endeavour. Please let me know as soon as possible how much you would like to contribute. I have to register you and if you know of anyone else who might be interested in subscribing, please take care of it or give me their addresses. I may have forgotten some names´) and in a postscript further adds ´Inclue la liste des souscriptions a ce jour. La somme à réaliser est 20,000 fr´ (Translation: ´Included is the list of subscriptions to date. The target amount is 20,000 francs´). Together with Monet´s autograph list of subscribers, one page, 4to, headed ´Souscription pour acheter l´Olympia à Madame Manet et l´offrir au Louvre´ (Translation: ´Subscription to buy the Olympia from Mrs Manet and offer it to the Louvre´) and featuring an alphabetical list of thirty-four subscribers and the individual amounts that they have donated, totalling some 15,025 Francs at the date of the letter, 17th October 1889. Among the subscribers are Monet himself, who is recorded as having given 1,000 Francs, as well as other artists, writers, art collectors and gallery owners including Paul-Albert Besnard (100 Francs), Jacques-Émile Blanche (500 Francs), Giovanni Boldini (1,000 Francs), Félix Bracquemond (50 Francs), Gustave Caillebotte (1,000 Francs), Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (50 Francs), Emmanuel Chabrier (50 Francs), Jules Chéret (100 Francs), Théodore Duret (1,000 Francs), Paul Durand-Ruel (200 Francs), Gustave Geffroy (25 Francs), Paul Gallimard (200 Francs), Joris-Karl Huysmans (25 Francs), Octave Mirbeau (300 Francs), Étienne Moreau-Nélaton (500 Francs), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (300 Francs), Jean-Francois Raffaelli (100 Francs), Alfred Philippe Roll (500 Francs), Henri Rouart (1,000 Francs), John Singer Sargent (1,000 Francs) and others. A letter of fine content accompanied by the historically important list of subscribers solicited by Monet. The letter with a neat split to the upper edge of the central vertical fold of the bifolium and the manuscript list with a couple of similar neat splits to the edges of the folds and with some light dust staining and minor creases to the edges. About VG, 2Henri Guérard (1846-1897) French painter and printmaker. A friend of Edouard Manet, Guérard posed for one of the artist´s paintings, Au Café, with the actress Ellen Andrée in 1879. Manet´s Olympia (1863) was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon where it immediately caused controversy. The subject of the painting, Olympia, is a white prostitute, seen reclining in a full-length naked pose on her bed, while being attended to by her black maid. Olympia´s confrontational gaze towards the viewer sparked shock amongst the public in 1865, however the painting later became appreciated as one of Manet´s masterpieces. This was certainly the opinion of Monet, who played the greatest part in the campaign intended to have Olympia purchased through subscription and then to have it accepted by the French government for display in the Louvre. Monet´s campaign commenced in 1889 and by February 1890 the artist had raised around 20,000 francs for the acquisition of the painting. However, French law prevented the Louvre from exhibiting works until their creators were ten years deceased (Manet died in 1883) and therefore Olympia was first kept in the Musée du Luxembourg. It finally entered the Louvre in 1907, fulfilling Monet´s wishes.
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