Claude MONET Autographed Letter Signed. The works of his friend Alfred SISLEY

  
The Autographes des Siècles bookstore has been specializing for many years in the sale of autographed letters and manuscripts. Autographed letter signed to collector and patron François Depeaux.

On mourning paper with Giverny by Vernon letterhead. "I have directly written to the painters who have shown sympathy to Sisley. Important letter from Monet devoted to the succession of the works of Alfred Sisley who passed away a few weeks earlier.

The master of Impressionism is busy simultaneously with a public sale of Sisley's paintings and with a subscription for the Luxembourg Museum, wishing to preserve the memory of his friend and the interests of his two children. "My dear Henri, I have received your letter of the 20th and also your telegram this morning. Miss Jeanne has just written to Madame Depeaux to inform her that she will arrive tomorrow Wednesday at 4:55. As for me, since I see that we will have trouble getting in touch, not wanting to leave at the moment because of my wife, I am writing to you what I wanted to tell you. 1° that the subscription for the purchase of a Sisley painting to offer to the Luxembourg should be closed shortly. 2° that the sale of a certain number of Sisley's paintings and donations from his friends and colleagues being decided for the dates of April 29-30 and May 1, it was urgent before starting anything else, to first choose the painting to offer to the Luxembourg and then the paintings intended for the public sale.

Once this is done, there would be nothing left but to prudently take advantage of the offers that will come up, but the first thing in my opinion would be to definitively make these two choices. And since you are in Paris, you could discuss this with Mr. Viau, not wanting to take any responsibility. In short, to do good work, we must be in agreement and I would be sorry if I could be blamed for missing a profitable opportunity for the children. It is this consideration that makes me desire that these two things be done once and for all.

Actively involved in the planned sale, I would like it to be a success for our dear friend and his children. I have directly written to the painters who have shown sympathy to Sisley. I have already received several favorable responses and I have every reason to hope that it will work out as desired. If it is urgent for me to come to Paris, telegraph quickly.

The last years of the British painter Alfred Sisley (1839-1899) were difficult. Affected by throat cancer, he is too weak to attend the funeral of his wife who died in October 1898.

On January 21, 1899, he summoned Claude Monet to his home in Moret-sur-Loing to bid him farewell and beg him to look after his two children. He dies eight days later, on January 29. Monet takes the initiative of an exhibition and a sale of the studio for the benefit of the children Jeanne-Adèle and Pierre Sisley. Several galleries then present paintings by the artist, in Paris as well as in New York, and articles praise his memory.

On May 1st, the auction of the studio and works offered by friends, including Mary Cassatt, Cézanne, Pissarro, Renoir, Rodin, and Vuillard, takes place at Georges Petit's. Informed collector and patron of Sisley, François Depeaux (1853-1920) owned more than fifty of his paintings. His collection of nearly 600 paintings also included several works by Monet, as well as by Pissarro, Renoir, and Toulouse Lautrec. Part of his collection was dispersed in 1901 at the Hôtel Drouot. In 1903, he offered 300 paintings to the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen.

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