Dvd Claude Monet in Giverny, Alice's house

Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

A film by Philippe Piguet

For 43 years -half of his life, from 1883 to his death in 1926, Claude Monet lived in Giverny. When he settled in his house in Normandy, a new life began for the painter. He embarked on an innovative pictorial adventure, developing the technique of series, such as the Haystacks, the Cathedrals, and the famous Waterlilies. In Giverny, Monet also started a new family with Alice Hoschedé and their respective children. Thanks to unpublished letters and private photos, the film relates Monet's daily life in Giverny.

• Philippe Piguet is historian, art critic, curator and author-film maker. He's also the Bel-great-grand-son of Claude Monet

Coproduction 2010 © BIX Films / RMN, with partnership Musée d'Orsay, Fondation Monet and France Télévisions.