Lot 127 Property from the family of Claude Monet

Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (1865-1947)

La maison de Monet à Giverny

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Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (1865-1947)
La maison de Monet à Giverny
oil on canvas
23 3/8 x 28 5/8 in. (59.4 x 72.8 cm.)

Michel Monet, Giverny (gift from the artist).
Rolande Verneiges, France (gift from the above).
By descent from the above to the present owner.

For many years after the death of his first wife Camille in 1879, Monet continued to mourn his beloved muse and the mother to his two children, Jean and Michel. However, in 1892 Monet officially married Alice Hoschedé, the close friend and first wife of his former patron Ernest Hoschedé who had selflessly cared for Camille during the final days of her fatal illness, and subsequently remained with the Monet family to care for them. The union extended the Monet family significantly, adding Alice’s own six children from her previous marriage to the clan. Alice’s daughter Blanche Hoschedé soon became a frequent model and eager pupil of her step-father, leading Georges Clemenceau to dub her Monet’s “blue angel”. Remaining by Monet’s bedside in Giverny until his death, Blanche became the guardian of both his iconic house and the memory of the artist. Most likely executed not long after the artist’s death in 1926, La maison de Monet à Giverny is an elegant tribute to Monet’s final series of paintings: La maison dans les roses, painted in 1925. Blanche uses the same view point in her composition, and employs very precise brush strokes to highlight the wildness of the climbing plants and the radiant hues of the budding roses.

Claude Monet, La maison dans les roses, 1925.
Private Collection.

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Philippe Piguet will include this work in his forthcoming Blanche Hoschedé-Monet catalogue raisonné.

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La maison de Monet à Giverny

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