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\n\tPaintings by Impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840\u20131926) are some of the most valuable artworks in the world; in 2019 his\u00a0Meules<\/em>\u00a0(Haystacks) soared to $110.7\u00a0million at Sotheby\u2019s New York, setting an auction record for an Impressionist painting that still stands today. From glowing haystacks painted at different hours of the day to his monumental Nymph\u00e9as<\/em>\u00a0(Water Lilies) canvases and ethereal Venetian cityscapes, Monet\u2019s work has attracted a global following of collectors eager to own a piece of his luminous art.<\/p>\n \n\tBut at the beginning of his career Monet, like many of the Impressionists, struggled to make ends meet. As reported by Artnet News<\/em>, a letter confirming a loan to the artist from Gustave Manet, a brother of Monet\u2019s fellow Impressionist \u00c9douard Manet, will be among a tranche of Monet\u2019s correspondence coming up for auction at Autograph Auctions on March 25.<\/p>\n \n\tThe letter, dated October 18, 1875, reads, \u201cI, the undersigned Claude Monet, acknowledge having received from Mr Gustave Manet, as a loan, the sum of one thousand francs, which shall be repayable from the proceeds of the sale of 35 of my paintings, to be conducted in the course of next February under the direction of Mr Charles Oudart, auctioneer.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tManet further notes that he has already delivered eight paintings to Oudart, with the rest \u201cincluding the one depicting a Japanese woman (life-size), currently in progress\u201d to be delivered as they were completed. The painting mentioned would become La Japonaise<\/em> (1876), a painting of Monet\u2019s wife dressed in a Japanese kimono. It is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and estimated to be worth $100 million.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201c[W]hat makes this particular document signed by Claude Monet so important historically is the light it sheds on the financial struggles of the early Impressionists,\u201d International Autograph Auctions Europe\u2019s CEO\u00a0Francisco Pi\u00f1ero\u00a0told Artnet News<\/em>. \u201cMore than just a list of figures, it captures Monet\u2019s resolve in the face of the movement\u2019s unstable beginnings.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/monet-once-pledged-paintings-against-loan-letter-auction-1234777865\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/34495-0-w_720.jpg?w=719″] Paintings by Impressionist artist Claude Monet (1840\u20131926) are some of the most valuable artworks in the world; in 2019 his\u00a0Meules\u00a0(Haystacks) soared to $110.7\u00a0million at Sotheby\u2019s New York, setting an auction record for an Impressionist painting that still stands today. From glowing haystacks painted at different hours of the day to his monumental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1834528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1834528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1834528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1834528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1834528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}