LS in French, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.75 x 6.5, Giverny Par Vernon Eure letterhead, April 4, 1926. Letter to Jacques-Louis Duchemin, a member of the International Literary and Artistic Association, in full (translated): "I hurry to reply to you regarding the reproductions of the book 'A Giverny chez Claude Monet,' edited by the house of Bernheim Junior. I cannot give you the authorization, which you ask for, having left the liberty to the author and these Messieurs Bernheim Junior. I take this occasion to inform you that one of my paintings has been sold at the auction at the Hotel Drouot of April 26th made by Mr. Bellier and Expert Jon Hessel, catalogue number 72, Westminster effect of fog, which is said to have been sold for 72000 Francs, of which I haven’t received my author’s rights yet. Please receive my regards." In fine condition, with a rusty paperclip impression to the left edge of the first page.
For over approximately half a century, Jacques-Louis Duchemin (1895-1978), and his son Wladimir Duchemin (1941-2018), director of the Society of artistic property for drawings and models, fought to establish and protect the rights of artists relating to remuneration, forgery, distribution, and exploitation.
During his stays in London in the fall of 1899 and the early months of 1900 and 1901, Monet painted a series of oil paintings of the Palace of Westminster, home of the British Parliament. The series of 19 paintings, or those of which have been accounted for, share the same viewpoint: a distant perspective from Monet's window or a terrace at St Thomas' Hospital that overlooks the Thames and the Houses of Parliament; the paintings differ in their times of day, weather conditions, and the presence of seagulls or boaters. A magnificent letter from the aging artist, concerned with the sale and reproduction of his life’s work, written a mere four months before he would succumb to lung cancer at the age of 86.
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