MONET (Claude). Autograph letter signed "Claude... - Lot 22 - Osenat

MONET (Claude). Autograph letter signed "Claude Monet", with ORIGINAL Sketch, addressed to Charlotte Lysès. Giverny (Eure), "Tuesday March 31" [1914]. 2 pp. in-8 and one p. in-4 on a bifeuillet, mourning border, a few marginal snags, an ink stain in the margin of the first page. "Dear Lyses, I am anxiously awaiting news. I shall be so happy to receive good news, to KNOW THAT POOR SACHA HAS RECOVERED [Sacha Guitry was ill, and would draw from this painful experience a book entitled La Maladie]. Michel [son of Claude Monet] is obliged to go to Paris tomorrow to see his doctor, he will come to your house to bring me fresh news this evening. Please tell him IF YOU WILL ALLOW ME TO ORDER ROSEMARY FOR YOU... from Clark, as time is short. I will see that these orders are delivered as soon as possible and I will go to YAINVILLE [in Seine-Maritime, where Sacha Guitry and Charlotte Lysès had a house] WITH THE PLANTS I THINK I am GIVING YOU FOR THE MOMENT AND I WILL PLANT THE WHOLE IN FRONT OF THE PLANT, if that is all right. I am at your disposal so that there will be a beginning of planting done for Good Friday. Do not fail to tell Michel to which station the plants should be sent, Duclair or Yainville, and if the latter receives the shipments in g[ran] of speed. WHILE SACHA HAS NOT ASSISTED THE SUCCESS OF HIS ACT [DEUX COUVERTS, a one-act comedy by Sacha Guitry, premiered on March 30, 1914 at the Comédie-Française], I THINK HE IS CONTENT, HE CAN BE Proud. I think well of you, my dear Lysès and the dear patient, I kiss you very tenderly... [Claude Monet draws here in ink and pen a sketch of a flower bed] Flower bed at the top of the wall if I am not mistaken - it is agreed that, being able to walk on the pavilion, it is better to leave the access free - top of the pavilion surrounded by nasturtiums in boxes. SACHA GUITRY'S FIRST WIFE FROM 1907 TO 1917, THE COMEDIAN CHARLOTTE LYSES, born Charlotte Lejeune, became, like her husband, a great friend of Claude Monet, who, out of loyalty, would initially refuse to receive Yvonne Printemps, Sacha Guitry's second wife.