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“Damn!” Said Monet, or Something Like It: Then He Drove His Fist Through a “Genuine Claude Monet” Which He Had Painted Before He Learned How
Printed in ARTnews magazine on October 15, 1921
PARIS - The great impressionist patriarch, Claude Monet, has just been giving artists and speculators a lesson.
A short time back a dealer visited the master at his country home with a picture under his arm painted by Monet in the far-off days when he was under the influence of Courbet. he wanted M. Monet’s own identification of the work. The latter examined it carefully and then, with an oath, drove his fists through it. 
“It is by me, all right,” he said, “but I did it at a time when I knew nothing.”
The dealer, disturbed, cried: “I paid a lot of money for it - at least for the signature.”
“Perhaps you would be very good as to exchange it for another? The venerable man pointed to his walls. “Choose,” said he, indifferently, and so the dealer did.
When he had left with his prize under his arm a friend, who had attended the interview, said to Claude Monet: “But that is what the man was after all the time. Why did you pay into his hand?”
To which Monet retorted: “I quite saw that. But the chief thing is to keep the pictures which are not worthy of me out of the market, I should like to be wealthy enough to buy all my inferior work and to destroy it afterwards.” 
Of such stuff are made the true artists.

the-unnamable:

“Damn!” Said Monet, or Something Like It: Then He Drove His Fist Through a “Genuine Claude Monet” Which He Had Painted Before He Learned How

Printed in ARTnews magazine on October 15, 1921

PARIS - The great impressionist patriarch, Claude Monet, has just been giving artists and speculators a lesson.

A short time back a dealer visited the master at his country home with a picture under his arm painted by Monet in the far-off days when he was under the influence of Courbet. he wanted M. Monet’s own identification of the work. The latter examined it carefully and then, with an oath, drove his fists through it.

“It is by me, all right,” he said, “but I did it at a time when I knew nothing.”

The dealer, disturbed, cried: “I paid a lot of money for it - at least for the signature.”

“Perhaps you would be very good as to exchange it for another? The venerable man pointed to his walls. “Choose,” said he, indifferently, and so the dealer did.

When he had left with his prize under his arm a friend, who had attended the interview, said to Claude Monet: “But that is what the man was after all the time. Why did you pay into his hand?”

To which Monet retorted: “I quite saw that. But the chief thing is to keep the pictures which are not worthy of me out of the market, I should like to be wealthy enough to buy all my inferior work and to destroy it afterwards.”

Of such stuff are made the true artists.

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