Claude Monet

1840–1926 · France · Impressionism

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Wikipedia

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Small broken strokes of pure colour, the same motif painted again and again in changing light — haystacks, cathedrals, water lilies — and no black in the shadows.

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“Impression, Sunrise”, 1872 — Musée Marmottan Monet
“Water Lilies”, 1914
“Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son”, 1875
“Haystacks”
“Luncheon on the Grass”, 1866 — Musée d'Orsay
“Women in the Garden”, 1866 — Musée d'Orsay
“Garden at Sainte-Adresse”, 1867 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Woman in the Garden”, 1867 — Hermitage Museum
“The Magpie”, 1868 — Musée d'Orsay
“Camille Monet on her deathbed”, 1879 — Musée d'Orsay
“The artist's garden at Giverny”, 1900 — Musée d'Orsay
“Madame Monet wearing a kimono”, 1876 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Camille”, 1866 — Kunsthalle Bremen
“La Grenouillère”, 1869 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Poppy Field near Argenteuil”, 1873 — Musée d'Orsay
“San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk”, 1908 — Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
“Poplars”, 1891 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Woman with a Parasol, facing left”, 1886 — Musée d'Orsay
“Boulevard des Capucines”, 1873 — The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“The Cliff Walk at Pourville”, 1882 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Charing Cross Bridge”, 1900s
“The Luncheon”, 1873 — Musée d'Orsay
“Régates à Argenteuil”, 1872 — Musée d'Orsay
“Springtime”, 1872 — Walters Art Museum
“The Cliffs at Étretat”, 1886 — Pushkin Museum
“La Rue Montorgueil”, 1878 — Musée d'Orsay
“The Cliffs at Étretat”, 1885 — Clark Art Institute
“Beach in Pourville”, 1882 — National Museum in Poznań
“The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil”, 1874 — Musée d'Orsay
“Belle-Île Rocks”, 1886 — Pushkin Museum
“Corner of the Garden at Montgeron”, 1877 — Hermitage Museum
“The Beach at Sainte-Adresse”, 1867 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Portrait of Père Paul”, 1882 — Belvedere
“The Grand Canal”, 1908 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Snow at Argenteuil”, 1875 — National Gallery
“Tulip Field in Holland”, 1886 — Musée d'Orsay
“Pond at Montgeron”, 1877 — Hermitage Museum
“The Red Kerchief”, 1868 — Cleveland Museum of Art
“Lilac in the Sun”, 1873 — Pushkin Museum
“Haystack near Giverny”, 1884 — Pushkin Museum

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