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Property from the family of Claude Monet
A pair of spectacles
Details
A pair of spectacles
A pair of golden metal spectacles, round eye wires and short temples terminating by flexible ends, illegible maker's mark
A pair of golden metal spectacles, round eye wires and short temples terminating by flexible ends, illegible maker's mark
Provenance
Claude Monet, Giverny.
Michel Monet, Giverny (by descent from the above).
Rolande Verneiges, France (gift from the above).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Michel Monet, Giverny (by descent from the above).
Rolande Verneiges, France (gift from the above).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Further details
In 1894, Paul Cézanne said to the merchant Ambroise Vollard: “Monet is only an eye, but my God what an eye!"
P. Cézanne quoted in D. Cooper, Claude Monet: an exhibition of paintings, exh. cat., London, 1957.
P. Cézanne quoted in D. Cooper, Claude Monet: an exhibition of paintings, exh. cat., London, 1957.
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