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MONET Claude (1840 - 1926) Autograph note, 1885...

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MONET Claude (1840 - 1926) Autograph note, [1885 ?]; 1 page in-8. Miscellaneous expense accounts, including sums due to TROISGROS (canvas and stretcher merchant), for a total of 9209. Follows list, with prices, of "Canvas delivered" on March 6: Snow Effect (800); and April 2: 8 panels at 100 (800), 9 at 300 (2700), 2 Jardin matin (2000), Giverny (800), Epte printemps (900), Italie neige (800), Citrons (700); total 9100. Attached is a photographic portrait of Monet by Paul NADAR (14.5 x 10.5 cm, mounted on card in the name of Nadar Paris, 17.5 x 13 cm; qqs slight scratches). Beautiful portrait of Monet taken in Paul Nadar's studio in early December 1899. In a letter to the photographer (December 10, 1903), Monet wrote of his "predilection for portraits of complete simplicity, without any primer", as seen here. PROVENANCE Archives Claude Monet (coll. Cornebois, December 13, 2006, lots 194 and 225)