{"title":"Claude Monet | Original Prints \u0026 Etchings","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eClaude Monet (1840–1926) is the central figure of French Impressionism — the painter whose sustained investigation of light, atmosphere, and the act of seeing itself transformed the course of Western art. His water lily series, his haystacks, his Rouen Cathedral façades painted at different hours of the same day: these are among the most studied and beloved works in art history, held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Museum of Modern Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe works available through Creed Gallery represent a specific and historically significant aspect of Monet's output — the graphic works produced during his Antibes period of 1888–1892, when he travelled to the French Riviera to paint the Mediterranean light he described as wrestling with the sun. The sanguine etchings produced by Auguste Marie Lauzet for the publication L'Art impressionniste d'après la collection de M. Durand-Ruel are among the rarest graphic documents of Monet's work from this period — original nineteenth-century impressions on laid paper, carrying the warmth and crystalline clarity of the Riviera light in a format that private collectors can actually own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eMonet's major oil paintings are beyond the reach of virtually all private collections. These graphic works represent one of the very few categories in which a documented, historically significant Monet can be acquired. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London. Private viewings by appointment.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"claude-monet-paysage-a-antibes-1892-rare-limited-edition-sanguine-etching","title":"Claude Monet | Paysage à Antibes (1892) | Rare Limited Edition Sanguine Etching","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuguste Marie Lauzet (1864–1898) after Claude Monet (1840–1926)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaysage à Antibes, 1892\u003cbr\u003eEtching in sanguine on cream laid paper | From L'Art impressionniste d'après la collection de M. Durand-Ruel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis etching belongs to one of the most significant print publications of the Impressionist era. L'Art impressionniste d'après la collection de M. Durand-Ruel was published in Paris in 1892 as an attempt to document, in print, the collection of Paul Durand-Ruel — the dealer who, more than any other individual, sustained the Impressionist painters through the long years before their work found its public. The publication used etching to translate the paintings into reproducible form, with Auguste Marie Lauzet responsible for the interpretations after Monet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaysage à Antibes — a coastal scene from the series Monet painted on the Mediterranean coast in 1888, among the most celebrated landscapes of his career — is rendered here in sanguine: warm, reddish-brown ink on cream laid paper, a palette that gives the composition a quality of memory, as if the light of the south is being recalled rather than directly depicted. Lauzet's intaglio linework captures the shimmer of Monet's brushwork with a delicacy that respects both the original and the expressive possibilities of the etching medium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA work of this age, documentation, and historical significance — connecting directly to the first great moment of Impressionist collecting — is a rare acquisition. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEtching in sanguine on cream laid paper\u003cbr\u003e\nPublished in L'Art impressionniste d'après la collection de M. Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1892\u003cbr\u003e\nBespoke conservation framing\u003cbr\u003e\nCertificate of Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e\nFull provenance documentation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Creed Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55790698856788,"sku":null,"price":12000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0418\/6196\/files\/Claude-Monet-Paysage-a-Antibes-1892-Sanguine-Etching-Creed-Gallery-Ascot.jpg?v=1778668432"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0418\/6196\/collections\/Creed_Gallery_-_Artist_-_Claude_Monet.png?v=1778687203","url":"https:\/\/creedgallery.com\/collections\/about-claude-monet.oembed","provider":"Creed Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}