Swann Galleries - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings

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CLAUDE MONET

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GEORGE W. THORNLEY

Femme à l’ombrelle

Lithograph printed in blue on off-white

Chine appliqué

on cream wove paper, circa 1908.

275x195 mm; 10

inches, full margins. Edition of 25. Signed by both Monet and

Thornley in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Belfond, Paris, with the blind stamp lower

right and the red ink stamp (Lugt supplement 225d, lower right). Published by Goupil,

Paris. From

L’Album de 20 lithographies d’apres les tableaux de Claude Monet

.A superb, richly-

inked impression of this scarce lithograph, with strong contrasts.

Based on Monet’s same-titled painting from 1886, now in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.The model

was Suzanne Hoschedé, the daughter of the artist’s close friend. Monet represented

Suzanne in silhouette standing on an embankment at Giverny, near Monet’s home in the

country outside Paris.

[20,000/30,000]