Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies (72 page)

15
   Ibid., p. 113.

16
   Martet,
Clemenceau
, p. 219.

17
   
Georges Clemenceau à son ami Claude Monet
, p. 149.

18
   Ibid., p. 150.

19
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 120.

20
   WL 2567.

21
   Hoschedé,
Claude Monet, ce mal connu
, vol. 1, p. 102.

22
   This account is provided in Hoschedé,
Claude Monet, ce mal connu
, vol. 1, p. 146.

23
   Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 434.

24
   Quoted in Hoschedé, vol. 1, p. 146.

25
   The required measurements for Katral lenses are described in M. Dufour, “Sur le centrage des verres de lunettes,”
Comptes rendus des séances de la Société de biologie et de ses filiales
(Paris: Masson et Cie., 1914), pp. 220–22.

26
   Georges-Paul Collet, ed.,
Correspondance: Jacques-Émile Blanche–Maurice Denis (1901– 1939)
(Geneva: Droz, 1989), p. 61.

27
   
La Renaissance de l’art français et des industries de luxe
(May 1923), p. 310. The tenants of the rue de Castiglione in 1923 are given on pp. 374–5.

28
   
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, p. 154.

29
   Ibid., p. 157.

30
   WL 2575.

31
   Quoted in Levine,
Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection
, p. 266.

32
   See Stuckey, “Blossoms and Blunders,” p. 120.

33
   
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami
, p. 158.

34
   The letter to Léon has since disappeared. In its absence, the question remains of how definitive Monet was in his termination of the contract.

35
   Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 432.

36
   Quoted in Spate,
Claude Monet: The Colour of Time
, p. 285.

37
   
Claude Monet: The Colour of Time
, p. 285.

38
   See Simon Kelly,
Monet’s Water Lilies: The Agapanthus Triptych
, pp. 40–41.

39
   Christopher Lyon, “Unveiling Monet,”
MoMA
, No. 7 (Spring, 1991), p. 16.

40
   Walter Friedländer, “Poussin’s Old Age,”
Gazette des beaux-arts
, vol. 60 (July–August 1962), p. 249.

41
   Kenneth Clark, “The Artist Grows Old,”
Daedalus
135 (Winter 2006), p. 85.

42
   Quoted in Glen A. Mazis, “‘Modern Depths,’ Painting, and the Novel: Turner, Melville, and the Interstices,”
Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal
, vol. 70 (Spring/Summer 1987), p. 125.

43
   
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, p. 158.

44
   Ibid., p. 161.

45
   WL 2583, 2584 and 2585.

46
   
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, p. 163.

47
   Quoted in Hoschedé, vol. 2, p. 15.

48
   
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, pp. 162–3.

CHAPTER TWENTY: “SEND YOUR SLIPPER TO THE STARS”

1
    For details of this visit, see Jacques Le Griel, “Voyage fait à Giverny (Eure) par les conseillers municipaux de Saint-Étienne qui y allèrent pour acquérir pour le musée un tableau de M. Claude Monet,”
Les Amitiés Foréziennes et Vellaves
(April 1925), reprinted in
Bulletin du Vieux Saint-Étienne
, no. 218 (June 2005), pp. 36–41.

2
    Quoted in Maloon, “Monet’s Posterity,” p. 179.

3
    Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 438.

4
    WL 2589.

5
    WL 2589 and 2590.

6
    
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, pp. 163–4.

7
    Ibid., p. 164.

8
    Ibid.

9
    Ibid., p. 165.

10
   For gardens and the weather, see Clemenceau’s letter from later that same month, in
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, p. 165. For their discussion of the political situation, see
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 136.

11
   Royer et al., “L’Opération de la cataracte de Claude Monet,” p. 123.

12
   WL 2606.

13
   
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, p. 166.

14
   
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 103.

15
   Ibid., pp. 166.

16
   
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, p. 167.

17
   Ibid., p. 168.

18
   Ibid., p. 167.

19
   Clemenceau,
Claude Monet
, p. 19.

20
   Jay Ruby,
Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995); and John Moring,
Early American Naturalists: Exploring the American West, 1804–1900
(Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2005), pp. 124–25.

21
   WL 2612.

22
   Hoschedé, vol. 1, pp. 146–47.

23
   WL 2683.

24
   WL 2609 and 2611.

25
   WL 2683.

26
   WL 2615.

27
   
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, p. 171.

28
   Ibid., p. 173.

29
   Ibid., p. 174.

30
   Ibid., p. 176.

31
   
Milwaukee Journal
, May 6, 1943.

32
   Quoted in Denommé,
The Naturalism of Gustave Geffroy
, p. 29. Clemenceau’s shaking voice is reported in
Le Petit Parisien
, April 8, 1926.

33
   
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 268.

34
   
Georges Clemenceau à Son Ami Claude Monet
, p. 173.

35
   
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 266.

36
   
Le Gaulois
, May 18, 1927.

37
   
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 266.

38
   Charteris,
John Sargent
, pp. 128–9.

39
   Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 444.

40
   
La Revue de Paris
, February 1927.

41
   Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 453.

42
   
Le Gaulois
, December 6, 1926.

43
   
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 294.

44
   Quoted in Hoschedé, vol. 1, p. 151. For a description of this visit, see also Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 446.

45
   Quoted in Alphant,
Claude Monet
, p. 674.

46
   
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 35.

47
   Ibid., pp. 348–9.

48
   
Georges Clemenceau à son Ami Claude Monet
, p. 186.

49
   Ibid., p. 181.

50
   Ibid., p. 111.

51
   Thiébault-Sisson,
Le Temps
, January 8, 1927. Clemenceau’s supposed commands to his chauffeur are given in Guitry,
If I Remember Right
, p. 233. However, Guitry incorrectly reports that Clemenceau came from Belébat rather than Paris, which was actually the case.

52
   
Le Figaro
, December 9, 1926.

53
   Quoted in Wildenstein,
Monet, or the Triumph of Impressionism
, p. 458.

54
   R. Hubert, L’Inspecteur de l’Enseignement Primaire des Andelys, to Achille Delaplace, L’Instituteur de Giverny, December 7, 1926. My thanks to Jean-Michel Peers for granting permission to cite this letter.

55
   
L’Écho de Paris
, December 9, 1926.

56
   Guitry,
If I Remember Right
, pp. 233–4.

57
   
L’Écho de Paris
, December 9, 1926.

58
   
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 268.

59
   
Le Petit Parisien
, December 9, 1926.

EPILOGUE: THE PRINCE OF LIGHT

1
    For this interview, see
Le Gaulois
, May 18, 1926.

2
    
Lettres à une Amie
, p. 401.

3
    Quoted in Maloon, “Monet’s Posterity,” in Shackleford, ed.,
Monet and the Impressionists
, p. 185.

4
    Gimpel,
Diary of an Art Dealer
, p. 59.

5
    
Le Populaire
, May 19, 1926.

6
    
Comoedia
, May 17, 1927, and
Le Petit Journal
, May 17, 1927.

7
    Quoted in Terence Maloon, “Monet’s Posterity,” in Shackleford, ed.,
Monet and the Impressionists
, p. 301. For Sickert’s comments, see John House,
Nature into Art
, p. 108.

8
    Gréard,
Meissonier: His Life and Art
, p. 345.

9
    For these reviews, see Maloon, “Monet’s Posterity,” pp. 182–3 and 185.