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Claude Monet Water Lilies

Claude Monet Water Lilies

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This book on Claude Monet's Water Lilies, conceived by Pierre Georgel, the former director of the Musée de l'Orangerie, is the synthesis of this monumental work, the last of the painter's works, undoubtedly - because it is the culmination of a lifetime of research - the most interesting ...
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Characteristics

Number of pages :
126
Museum :
Musée d'Orsay
Art movement :
Impressionism
Dimensions :
22,1 × 23,5 × 0,9 cm
Artist :
Claude Monet (1840-1926)
EAN :
9782850256769
Reference :
MX187527

Editor

Publication :
Juin 1999

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The artist

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Claude Monet (1840-1926) grew up in Le Havre where he painted landscapes of nature. After a stay in Paris, he moved to Argenteuil in 1872 where Renoir, Sisley, Manet, Pissarro and Caillebote joined him. Together, they organized an exhibition of the works denied by the Official Salon in 1874 where Monet presented 'Impression, rising sun'. The artist became leader of the Impressionnist art movement destined to capture natural light rather than trying to represent reality at its best. In 1883 he moved to Giverny, his place of creation and his artwork where he dedicated himself to painting his pond. He painted twelve artworks of the white water lilys as only subject for 10 years. At 49, the artist finally found success when he is acclaimed by the critics during a retrospective devoted to him by the gallery Petit.