Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . No. 73ETRETAT: SUNSET BY CLAUDE MONET 1 Claude Monet French: 1840—j(j 73 ETRETAT: SUNSET Height, 24 inches; length, 31% inches Boldly from the left projects a huge ridge of darkbluish-gray rock, jutting into the sea in the middledistance, its back high against the clouds. Toward itsseaward end, near the center of the picture, the waveshave hewn a passage through it, the aperture a tall andnarrow irregular arch, from a buttress of which on itsouter side a monolithic pinnacle raises its point heaven-ward. Far off the sun is setting, a hot, ver
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Valuable pictures by foreign and American masters . No. 73ETRETAT: SUNSET BY CLAUDE MONET 1 Claude Monet French: 1840—j(j 73_ETRETAT: SUNSET Height, 24 inches; length, 31% inches Boldly from the left projects a huge ridge of darkbluish-gray rock, jutting into the sea in the middledistance, its back high against the clouds. Toward itsseaward end, near the center of the picture, the waveshave hewn a passage through it, the aperture a tall andnarrow irregular arch, from a buttress of which on itsouter side a monolithic pinnacle raises its point heaven-ward. Far off the sun is setting, a hot, vermilion orb, in dark banks of summer haze and melting strata ofhorizon clouds, its light lending to the broken watersvarying hues of the hour. The upper sky, above thesunset haze, is shot with patches of fleeting, wind-driven clouds, yellowish-gray and white. Signed at the lower left, Claude Monet, 83.From the William H. Fuller Collection, New York, 1903.. Xo. 74FEMME A LA CHEVRE BV CAMILLE PISSARRO Camille Pissarro French: 1831— fl°> 74—FEM ME A LA CHEVRE Height, 32 inches; width, 25% inches A young French peasant woman, slender but sturdy, is pictured at full length standing at the foot of arocky mound in a broken country, facing the observer, with her eyes bent upon the ground. She is clad in adark emerald waist and pinkish-gray skirt, and wearsover all a blue hooded cape, which, tied under her chin, falls away in front, the hood framing her face and blondhair in an oval. In one hand she holds a bunch of yel-low-flowered greenery, and a white, shaggy-haired goathas come up and is nibbling at it. The backgroundof mellow-hued earth, rich grasses, weathered buildingsand scraggly trees is bathed in a softened sunlight, which plays amid delicate shadows on the maidens face. Signed at the lower right, C. Pissabro, 81. Purchased from Messrs. Durand-Ruel <§• Sons, New York, 1907.