Claude Monet Signs the Illustrated Catalog of His 1912 Exhibition: Les Venise

The only autograph of Monet we have ever seen with full illustrations of his work, including 2 in color.

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The 1912 Paris exhibit showcased art from his voyage to Venice with his wife, Alice

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature.  The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting...

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Claude Monet Signs the Illustrated Catalog of His 1912 Exhibition: Les Venise

The only autograph of Monet we have ever seen with full illustrations of his work, including 2 in color.

The 1912 Paris exhibit showcased art from his voyage to Venice with his wife, Alice

Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature.  The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.  He was later one of the Impressionists whose fervent minds created the early 20th century movement, Fauvism.  This style, while still focusing on natural subjects, used strong colors and bold brush strokes to illicit emotion. 

In 1908, Monet visited Venice with his second wife, Alice.  While there, he created a series of now-famous works around some of the iconic monuments of the city, including the Palazzo Dario and the Palazzo Ducale.  Monet took these famed sites and gave them his own distinct look and feel, yet he captured the texture and atmosphere of the city. Monet’s exhibition was hailed as a triumph by most critics, who did not fail to draw a connection between his work and early modernism.

Among the reproductions are images of "Le Grand Canal, Le Palais Ducal, "Le Rio de la Salute;” there are 2 in color and numerous others in sepia. 

In 1911, his wife passed away, and that left Monet devastated. As a homage to her, he exhibited his paintings from Venice at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris, an exhibition that lasted just 2 weeks.  A booklet was created at the time to commemorate the exhibition, and Octave Mirabeau, writer and art critic who praised the impressionists, wrote the preface.  Only 100 of these originals were printed, and they are works of art themselves.  The booklet is 20 pages long, and contains 10 reproductions of the works on display in Paris during those two weeks, 2 of them in color, which was highly unusual at the time.  It lists the entire catalog of works Monet loaned to the gallery.

Book signed, "Claude Monet," being one of the original catalogs printed for his 1912 exhibition.  Among the reproductions are images of "Le Grand Canal, Le Palais Ducal, "Le Rio de la Salute;” there are 2 in color and numerous others in sepia.  

Anything signed by Monet that contains illustrations of his works must be considered extremely rare, and all the more so with those illustrations in color. Generally one only sees letters on Monet with routine content on the market, and we have not seen anything like this before.

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