May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
CLAUDE MONET and GEORGE W. THORNLEY
Portrait de Poly.

Lithograph printed in dark brown on Chine appliqué on cream wove paper, circa 1892. 225x160 mm; 8 7/8x6 3/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 25. Signed by both Monet and Thornley in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Belfond, Paris, with the blind stamp (Lugt 225d, lower right). Published by Goupil, Paris. From L'Album de 20 lithographies d'après les tableaux de Claude Monet. A superb impression of this very scarce lithograph.

Based on Monet's oil from 1886, now at the Musée Marmottant-Monet, Paris.