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340 CLAUDE MONET
AND
GEORGE W. THORNLEY
La Gare St. Lazare
.
Lithograph printed in violet black on off-white
Chine appliqué
on cream wove paper, circa
1892. 205x263 mm; 8
1
/
8
x10
3
/
8
inches, full margins. Edition of 25. Signed by both Monet
and Thornley in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Belfond, Paris, with the blind stamp
lower left (Lugt 225d, lower right). Published by Goupil, Paris. From
L’Album de 20
lithographies d’après les tableaux de Claude Monet
. A superb, richly-inked impression of this
very scarce lithograph, with strong contrasts.
In 1877, Monet rented a small apartment and artist’s studio near the Gare St. Lazare in
Paris. In the third Impressionist exhibition, which opened in April the same year, he
exhibited seven views of the railway station. Monet’s treatment of this Industrial Era
subject was rather revolutionary for its day and these paintings, four of which survive
today, are among the pantheon of French Impressionist art.
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