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MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) ´.... it is sunshine that I would like, and it is very rare´ - MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist painter. A.L.S., Claude Monet , two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), 8vo, n.p. (en route to Dieppe), n.d. ( ´Samedi 6 pm´ ; c. 1882-83), to [Alice Hoschedé] ( ´Chere Madame´ ), in pencil. Monet writes regarding an impending move to Giverny, ´ comme je vous le disais hier il est plus prudent de profiter de cette bonne occasion de quitter Poissy, je viens d’écrire aussi à Mr Masset pour le prévenir. Si de votre côté vous voyez ces personnes il est bien entendu qu’ils doivent nous tenir compte des dix mois payés d’avance de cette façon nous n’aurions rien ou à peu près à payer´ (Translation: ´ as I told you yesterday, it is wiser to take this good opportunity to leave Poissy, I have also just written to Mr Masset to warn him. If you see these people on your side, it goes without saying that they must give us an account for the ten months paid in advance, so that we would have nothing or almost nothing to pay´ ) and also refers to the weather and his work, ´ Il fait ici un temps affreux du brouillard à n’y rien voir et cependant j’ai travaillé quand même, mais c’est du soleil que je voudrais, et il est bien rare´ (Translation: ´ The weather here is dreadful, foggy beyond belief, and yet I have worked all the same, but it is sunshine that I would like, and it is very rare´ ), adding that he has almost reached Dieppe, where he will meet his brother, and concluding by remarking that he is thinking of Hoschede and the children, to whom he sends a thousand kisses. In a postscript Monet also adds that he has ´ reçu une lettre de Duret qui est à Paris. Il est dans l’enchantement de mon exposition´ (Translation: ´ received a letter from Duret who is in Paris. He is delighted with my exhibition´ ). VG Alice Hoschede Monet (1844-1911) French artists' model, wife of the art collector Ernest Hoschede and later of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet (from 1892). Although married to Camille Doncieux (1847-1879), the adulterous affair between Claude Monet and Alice Hoschedé began in 1876. After the death of Camille Doncieux, Monet and Alice Hoschedé (with all their eight children) moved first to Poissy in 1881, then to Giverny from 1883. Monet often left the family home for long periods in order to be able to paint at leisure, leaving Alice in charge of the household and eight children. The artist left Poissy from mid-February to mid-April 1882, to go to Dieppe, and then to Normandy, and the present letter may date from this period. Monet alludes to their final move to their famous home at Giverny, near Vernon in the Eure department, where he would produce some of his finest paintings.