Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (71 page)

36
   
Le Gaulois
, December 6, 1926.

37
   
Variations
, May 27, 1927.

38
   
Dictionnaire encyclopédique usuel
, 4th edition (Paris: Librairie Scientifique, Industrielle et Agricole de Lacroix-Comon, 1858), vol. 2, p. 969.

39
   
Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica
, ed. and trans. William H. Race (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), lines 1236–9.

40
   See, for example, Félix Jahrer’s
Étude des Beaux-arts: Salon de 1865
(Paris, 1865), p. 55; and
Revue française
, May–August 1865. I discuss the scandal of Manet’s
Olympia
in
The Judgment of Paris
, pp. 151–5.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: THE FATAL PROTUBERANCE

1
    Clemenceau,
Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas
, p. 19.

2
    
Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue
, ed. and trans. William Jay Smith (New York: Grove Press, 1956), p. 192.

3
    Nordau,
Degeneration
(New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1895), p. 43.

4
    Ibid., p. 37.

5
    Quoted in Apter, “The Garden of Scopic Perversion,” pp. 104 and 105.

6
    Quoted in Philippe Lanthony,
Art and Ophthalmology: The Impact of Eye Diseases on Painters
, trans. Colin Mailer (Amsterdam: Kugler, 2009), p. 134.

7
    WL 2494.

8
    
À Giverny, chez Claude Monet
, loc. 930.

9
    WL 2503.

10
   Quoted in Tucker, “Revolution in the Garden,” p. 82.

11
   Dating these late works is difficult, given the persistent failure of Monet to sign and date his works after 1919. However, Tucker dates the completion of the Japanese bridge canvases (of which three had been begun in 1918) and the alley of roses (a motif resumed in 1920) to the summer of 1922:
Claude Monet: Life and Art
, pp. 218–19.

12
   WL 2504a.

13
   Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 423.

14
   
Le Journal
, May 22, 1922.

15
   Paul Hayes Tucker, personal e-mail correspondence, August 2, 2015. I am grateful to Dr. Tucker for information on this transaction and for confirming my suspicions about the identity of the painting purchased by Matsukata.

16
   WL 2505.

17
   J. Royer, J. Haut, and P. Almaric, “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet: Correspondance inédite du peintre et de G. Clemenceau au docteur Coutela,”
Histoire des Sciences Médicales
18 (1984), p. 110.

18
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 110.

19
   WL 2507.

20
   “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 111.

21
   
New York Times
, September 10, 1922.

22
   Quoted in Holt,
The Tiger
, p. 251.

23
   For Kipling’s denial, see
The Letters of Rudyard Kipling
, vol. 5, pp. 127–8. Pinney observes that there is “no doubt he had in fact said them” (p. 128).

24
   The
Times
, September 11, 1922.

25
   
New York Times
, September 10, 1922.

26
   
Le Petit Journal
, September 12, 1922.

27
   
New York Tribune
, October 22, 1922.

28
   The
Times
, November 11, 1922.

29
   
New York Tribune
, October 22, 1922.

30
   Ibid., November 20, 1922.

31
   Ibid., November 19, 1922.

32
   
New York Evening World
, November 20, 1922.

33
   
New York Tribune
, November 24, 1922.

34
   Ibid., November 24, 1922.

35
   
New York Evening World
, December 5 and 13, 1922.

36
   
Le Figaro
, November 19, 1922.

37
   WL 2517.

38
   Hoschedé,
Claude Monet, ce mal connu
, vol. 1, p. 142.

39
   Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, pp. 423–4.

40
   Hoschedé, vol. 1, p. 142.

41
   Ibid., vol. 1, pp. 142–3.

42
   Léon Heuraux,
Cocaïne et stovaïne en ophtalmologie: leurs indications particulières
(Lyon: Delaroche et Schneider, 1906), p. 51.

43
   E. Fuchs,
Manuel d’ophtalmologie
, 2nd French edition, trans. C. Lacompte and L. Leplat (Paris: Georges Carré and C. Naud, 1897), p. 787.

44
   Hoschedé, vol. 1, p. 143.

45
   Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, pp. 424–5.

46
   WL 2505.

47
   
La Lanterne
, May 24,1922.

48
   
Le Bulletin de la vie artistique
, October 15, 1923.

49
   WL 2522.

50
   This point is made in Romy Golan, “Oceanic Sensations: Monet’s
Grandes Décorations
and Mural Painting in France from 1927 to 1952,” in Tucker et al.,
Monet in the 20th Century
, p. 92.

51
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 111.

52
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 116.

53
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 112.

54
   Hoschedé,
Claude Monet, ce mal connu
, vol. 1, p. 144.

55
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 116.

56
   Ibid., p. 118.

57
   Ibid., p. 119.

58
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” pp. 113–14.

59
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 119.

60
   Ibid., p. 122.

61
   WL 2526.

62
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 124.

63
   WL 2528; and Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 114.

64
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 115.

65
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 125.

66
   Ibid., p. 126; and WL 2538.

67
   WL 2529.

68
   Dr. Coutela’s report of this consultation can be found in
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, pp. 128–30.

69
   WL 2530.

70
   WL 2531.

71
   Philippe Lanthony, “La xanthopsie de Van Gogh,”
Bulletin des Sociétés d”ophtalmologie de France
(October 1989), pp. 133–4; and W. N. Arnold and L. S. Loftis, “Xanthopsia and van Gogh’s Yellow Palette,”
Eye
5 (1991), pp. 503–10.

72
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 116.

73
   
If I Remember Right
, p. 233.

74
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, pp. 126 and 127.

75
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 116.

76
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 132–4.

77
   Ibid., p. 137.

78
   WL 2535.

79
   WL 2539.

80
   WL 2534.

81
   Gimpel,
Diary of an Art Dealer
, pp. 9 and 58.

82
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 139.

83
   WL 2664.

84
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, pp. 140–41.

85
   Ibid., pp. 142 and 143. The accident was widely reported in the press: See, for example,
Le Petit Parisien
and
Le Figaro
, December 17, 1923.

CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE SOUL’S DARK COTTAGE

1
    Quoted in Gennifer Weisenfeld,
Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012), p. 2.

2
    See, for example,
L’Humanité
, September 5, 1923.

3
    
Le Petit Parisien
, December 1, 1923.

4
    
Le Rappel
, January 15, 1924.

5
    WL 2554.

6
    WL 2545.

7
    Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 137.

8
    Louis Gillet,
Trois variations sur Claude Monet
(Paris: Librairie Plon, 1927), p. 45. All quotations are taken from this text.

9
    
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 143.

10
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 119.

11
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 147.

12
   WL 2489.

13
   
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 89.

14
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, pp. 148, 149, 150, and 157.