Claude Monet
Étretat, le Cap d'Antifer, c. 1885
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Artwork Details
(possibly) Mme Materne, c. 1894
I. Stchoukine, Paris
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 24, 1900, lot 36
Olivier Vainsère
Galerie Lorenceau, Paris
Wildenstein & Co., Paris
Alice Tully, acquired from the above, 1973
Christie's, New York, November 10, 1994, lot 138
Neffe-Degandt Gallery, London
Private Collection, acquired from the above, 2002, thence by descent
Private Collection, California
During the 1880s Monet returned to the Normandy coast, finding inspiration in the sparkling light and famous limestone cliffs. In this seascape at Etretat, Monet has chosen an unusual composition, dividing the landscape down the centre with the vertiginous cliffs. As noted in the catalogue raisonné, this pastel is not a preparatory study for an oil painting, but a wholly original composition.
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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