After Claude Monet, Lady with Parasol, 1918, Lithograph

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A lithograph after Claude Monet from "Die Skizzenmappe - Zeichnungen französischer Meister des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts" portfolio with text by Julius … Read more A lithograph after Claude Monet from "Die Skizzenmappe - Zeichnungen französischer Meister des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts" portfolio with text by Julius Elias, published by Marees-Gesellschaft in Munich in 1911-1918, one year before the Van Gogh portfolio, in an edition of 100 only. The portfolio consisted of 70 lithographic reproductions of drawings and watercolors by Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Armand Guillaumin, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, George Seurat, Paul Signac, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Auguste Rodin.
As stated in the colophon, it took the publisher 7 years to complete the series.
The artwork is accompanied by a copy of the colophon.

Claude Monet (1840-1926), after
"Die Dame mit dem Sonnenschirm" (Lady with Parasol)
Colour Lithograph
Year (conceived): 1886
Year (printed): 1918
Edition: 57/100
Size (overall): 480 x 322 mm
Size of the image: 300 x 225 mm
in the original passepartout, blind-numbered 15

Signed in the plate "Claude Monet", bottom right
Blind seal of the publisher, bottom right corner

Numbered 57 on the colophon, from an overall edition of 100

Printer: André Marty
Publisher: Marées-Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co., München, 1918

Excellent condition (few signs of age in the passepartout)

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This is probably the most poignant sketch for the most famous painting by Claude Monet, the artist who invented Impressionism. The work's viewpoint is below the woman, with a strong upward perspective. The faceless woman is free of identity. Her dress billows in the wind and her scarf is swept about her. The woman's surroundings are simply hinted at, there is grass beneath her feet and the faint outline of clouds in the sky above, but the location is open to interpretation. Claude Monet effectively creates a sense of movement and expansion which resists limits or definition.

Woman with a Parasol drawing appears to have been the basis upon which he created the painting, Woman with a Parasol, facing left, in 1886. Perspective, composition and minor details, from the shadow at her feet to the flower at her waist are identical. Again, Claude Monet captures the essence of a windy summers day.

An Iconic Artwork in the first printed limited edition

Karin Sagner-Düchting, Claude Monet 1840 - 1926: Ein Fest für die Augen, Taschen, 1990 This piece has an attribution mark,
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