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Claude Monet (1899)

Photograph by Nadar
Source: Wikipedia

THE LIFE OF CLAUDE MONET

Born 14 November 1840
Died 5 December 1926

Oscar Claude Monet - biographical information

Claude Monet was born to Adolphe and Louise-Justine Monet of 45 Rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris in 1840. He was christened Oscar-Claude Monet. At the age of 5 his family moved to Le Havre on the coast of Normandy. His artistic endeavours as a teenager focused on caricatures which he was able to sell. He also kept a sketchbook and drew local landscapes. He met and came to know the painter Eugene Boudin who became a mentor and influenced Monet's decision to become a painter. He also learned the techniques of painting plein air from Boudin.

He first visited Paris in 1859 but was not interested in enrolling in the Art School. In 1862, he subsequently began studies in the studio of Charle Gleyre along with fellow artists Frédéric Bazille, Alfred Sisley, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The group also painted for a time in the Forest of Fontainebleu. While in Paris he befriended many of the artists of the time that we know today. Others artists he knew included Edouard Manet and Camille Pissarro.

In 1870, he retreated to London for the duration of the Franco-Prussian War, where he met Paul Durand-Ruel who was to become his dealer.

While Monet painted scenes of contemporary life his focus was more on capturing the atmosphere rather than creating an accurate record of his subject matter. He developed a style of painting his subject in the light in broken colour applied in a sketchy way which made it difficult to know at times whether a painting was finished or not. They did not find favour with the art critics. In 1874, frustrated by the lack of acceptance by the art establishment, he and his peers organized their own exhibition in 1874, the First Impressionist Exhibition.

Monet's own painting "Impression: Sunrise (1872)" gave rise to the title by which thr group of painters became known - they were dubbed the Impressionists by journalist Louis Leroy. In the 1880s, he was regarded by many as the leader of the Impressionists although he subsequently painted and exhibited more on his own rather than as a member of a group. He also developed his technique and his painting of light through travel to find new motifs with interesting effects to paint.

Monet had moved out of Paris on his return from London and moved to a number of rented homes along in towns and villages along the River Seine. Eventually he settled in Giverny in a famhouse which he subsequently bought and where he developed his famous garden - the flower garden next to the house and the water garden across the road on a piece of land that he bought. In the 1890s he started his series paintings - with the bridge and waterlillies in the Water Garden being perennial subjects. For the most part he now painted closer to home, although his excursions to London and Venice created series of paintings of those cities.

He gifted a set of murals of the waterlillies to the nation following the first world war - these are now housed in special rooms in the Musee de l'Orangerie.

Monet died in 1926 having become in later years a source of inspiration for many other artists.

Claude Monet Biography - Biography.com: Learn about the life of Claude Monet at Biography.com. Read Biographies, watch interviews and videos.
SIMILE | Timeline | Examples | The Life of Monet: A timeline of the life of Monet
(Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monet
http://www.accents-n-art.com/artists/claude-monet-biography.html)
Claude Monet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Claude Monet (French pronunciation: [klod m%u0254n%u025B]), born Oscar Claude Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926)[1] was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.[2] The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant).
Fondation Claude Monet - Biography of Claud Monet: This is a French site with an English translation
Foundation Claude Monet - Claude Monet's chronology: Foundation Claude Monet - Chronology of the painter's life
Claude Monet: Biography from Answers.com: Claude Monet , Artist Born: 14 November 1840 Birthplace: Paris, France Died: 5 December 1926 Best Known As: Impressionist painter

Contains links to very many different sources of information
WebMuseum: Monet, Claude: Claude Monet (b. Nov. 14, 1840, Paris, Fr.--d. Dec. 5, 1926, Giverny)
French painter, initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. He is regarded as the archetypal Impressionist in that his devotion to the ideals of the movement was unwavering throughout his long career, and it is fitting that one of his pictures--Impression: Sunrise (Musée Marmottan, Paris; 1872)--gave the group his name.
Claude MONET : "My History": Claude Monet by himself In 1900, Monet has become famous. On the occasion of an exhibition in Paris a journalist, Thiébault-Sisson, made him tell his life. On November 26, 1900 the newspaper "Le Temps" published this autobiography in which Monet builds himself his legend. The text is translated from French.
Claude Monet (1840–1926) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Auricchio, Laura. "Claude Monet (1840-1926)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cmon/hd_cmon.htm (October 2004)
Artchive - Claude Monet: Claude Monet images and biography
Intermonet - Monet and Camille : A relationship Biography: Monet and Camille - A relationship Biography
Intermonet: Claude MONET Biography, Life of Claude Oscar Monet: Claude MONET Biography, Monet's life line
Claude Monet - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Claude Monet , 1840-1926, French landscape painter, b. Paris. Monet was a founder of impressionism . He adhered to its principles throughout his long career and is considered the most consistently representative painter of the school as well as one of the foremost painters of landscape in the history of art.
Claude Monet Encyclopedia of World Biography: The French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the seminal figure in the evolution of impressionism, a pivotal style in the development of modern art.
Monet's Flawed Vision Is Revealed in Paris Show of Late Work - Bloomberg.com: Why do people become painters? In two out of three cases, suspected the psychoanalyst Alfred Adler, to overcompensate for a congenital sight defect.

That's hard to prove. Yet there is no doubt that Claude Monet had serious eye problems in the last two decades of his life. The Musee Marmottan in Paris, which has the world's largest collection of his paintings, is raising the question: To what extent did those troubles shape his late work?
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926): Biography as timeline

Timeline: Lives of the Impressionist Painters

The Private Lives of the Impressionists

by Sue Roe

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this book which is extremely readable as well as being very well researched by Sue Roe. It provides yet more context for the the development of Impressionism in France and Claude Monet's role as a key painter within the movement.

Read my review of "The Private Lives of the Impressionists"

This book received a wealth of complimentary and starred reviews when it was published. It provides an excellent introduction to the set of painters who became known as the Impressionists.

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The Private Lives of the Impressionists

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The Judgment of Paris

The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

Ross King has written an excellent book about the development of Impressionism which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND. It spells out the context - the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune - for the development of this important period in art history

This is one of the best books I've ever read about the emergence of Impressionism and I'm not alone in thinking this!
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Monet features as a key character although more attention is given to Manet and Meissonier. It explained to me for the first time how a number of the Impressionist painters had to cope with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the prolonged siege of Paris in the middle of the development of their ouevre.

It's an excellent read. I bought my copy in the Museum de l'Orangerie in Paris and read it while visiting Paris and Normandy - which included the visit to Giverny which you can see in the photos in the section about Giverny below. There's nothing quite like reading about the places as you visit them!

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

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Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son

Camille Monet - Monet's first wife - with her son Jean
Location: Art Institute of Chicago
Source: Wikipedia

MONET IN EXHIBITIONS, ART GALLERIES & MUSEUMS

The queue for the Turner Whistler Monet Exhibition in Paris October 2004

BOOKS: Catalogues for Major Exhibitions of Monet's work

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Other catalogues of Monet exhibitions can be found throughout this site

Monet - Exhibitions

Links to various exhibitions which focus on the work of Monet

Monet's work is exhibited around the work and, invariably, these prove to be very popular exhibitions. Below you can find a list of links to websites associated with the more recent exhibitions. Many of these have images of works included in the exhibition.

Musée Marmottan: Les estampes japonaises de Claude Monet: Les estampes japonaises de Claude Monet Du 15 Novembre 2006 au 25 février 2007
National Gallery of Australia - Monet & Japan: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 9 March - 11 June 2001;
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 7 July - 16 September 2001
39 of Monet's best paintings from the world's greatest collections, alongside an extensive selection of Japanese prints and paintings, vividly demonstrate Monet's intimate relationship with Japanese art.
Tate Britain | Turner Whistler Monet: I saw this exhibition - which was quite exceptional

JMW Turner, James McNeill Whistler and Claude Monet each changed the course of landscape painting. Whistler and Monet were friends and both initially acknowledged the profound influence of Turner, adopting and working their own variations on themes developed by their artistic predecessor. Turners atmospheric effects gave rise to Whistlers Thames Nocturnes, and both Turner and Whistler informed Monets revolutionary paintings that went on to inspire the term Impressionism. This exhibition focuses on views of the River Thames, the Seine and the city and lagoon of Venice.
BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Turner Whistler Monet: The Tate Gallery in London is expecting huge crowds for its joint Turner Whistler Monet exhibition. Slideshow of pictures from the exhibition
Brooklyn Museum - Monet's London (2005) (Slideshow): Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914 is organized and circulated by The Museum of fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Brooklyn Museum - May 27-September 4, 2005
This exhibition documents the multifaceted excitement aroused by the Thames in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth, seen through the eyes of a wide variety of artists whose very definition of art was changing in step with the scenery they depicted.
Brooklyn Museum: Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914: (Two paintings)
The London series resulted from three separate painting campaigns from 1899 to 1901. Monet stayed at the elegant, recently constructed Savoy Hotel, where he had a suite of rooms with a balcony view of the Waterloo and Charing Cross Bridges on the Thames. While he concentrated on these two bridges during his first stay, he added the Houses of Parliament on his second trip, thanks to the American painter John Singer Sargent, who secured permission for him to paint them from the vantage point of St. Thomas' Hospital across the river.
Monet in Normandy: A Preview of 10 images from the "Monet in Normandy" exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art from February 18 to May 20, 2007.
CMA Special Exhibitions : About the Exhibition: Cleveland Museum of Art - Monet in Normandy (2007)
About the Exhibition
Monet in Normandy is the first scholarly exhibition to celebrate the intimate relationship between Claude Monet and his native landscape. Although born in Paris, Monet moved with his family to Le Havre, a charming town on the Normandy coast, when he was a small child, thus beginning the artist's enduring relationship with the region.

Featuring about 50 paintings, exhibition highlights include: The Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide (1865); Garden at Sainte-Adresse (1867); Cliff Walk at Pourville (1882); The Manneporte (Étretat) (1883); and Grainstack in the Sunlight (1891).
Monet in Normandy :: ArtMagick Exhibition Listings :: artmagick.com: Cleveland February 18, 2007 - May 28, 2007
MONET IN NORMANDY (2006): This is the first exhibition to deal with the region of France in which Monet spent most of his life and created the majority of his paintings. Although born in Paris, Monet moved with his parents to Normandy as a small child. His earliest pictorial experiments were made here and his enduring artistic relationship with Normandy--its dramatic coastline, commercial port cities, picturesque villages, countryside and river-- has never been the focus of a scholarly exhibition. As well as the works painted along the northern coast in the 1860s through 1880s, the exhibition also presents Monet's mythic field and village paintings done at Giverny and his Rouen Cathedral series. This exhibition will greatly enhance our understanding of the artist, encompassing the fullness and complexity of Monet's image of Normandy.
Monet in Normandy Exhibitions 2006-2007: * Monet in Normandy: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - June 17th, 2006 - September 17th, 2006
* North Carolina Museum of Art - October 15th, 2006 - January 14th, 2007
* Cleveland Museum of Art - February 18th, 2007 - May 20th, 2007
Monet in Normandy is the first scholarly exhibition to deal with the region of France in which the artist spent most of his life and created most of his paintings.
Past Exhibitions - Monet and the Impressionists: Kelvingrove at Kirkcudbright: Recent Monet exhibition in Scotland
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings: The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings. 2007 summer exhibition at the Clark, Williamstown, MA. View an online interactive of Monet's sketchbooks, listen to Audio Tour selections, and follow Monet's career from young draftsman to master painter.
Making a Mark: The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings: My blog post about this exhibition
Pastels, drawings, sketchbooks and Monet - four of my favourite things are combined in the new exhibition about "The Unknown Monet" at the Royal Academy of Arts until 10th June 2007. The exhibition then moves to the Sterling and Francine Carter Art Institute in Williamstown in Massachusetts from 24th June until 16th September 2007.
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra): Turner to Monet: the triumph of landscape: The National Gallery of Australia proudly presents Turner to Monet: the triumph of landscape, the most comprehensive survey of 19th century landscape paintings ever assembled. Works of art in the exhibition are drawn from 40 of the finest collections around the world including the Tate and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the J Paul Getty Museum in California, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and the Kröller-Müller Museum and the Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands.

Turner to Monet can be seen only at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Monet series displayed as intended at MFA - The Tech: An article from the Tuesday, March 6, 1990 issue of The Tech - MIT's oldest and largest newspaper and the first newspaper published on the Internet.
A review of Monet in the 90's at the MFA in Boston
MFAH / Exhibitions / In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet: The exhibition traces the steps of three generations of painters who sought out Fontainebleau as their ´natural studio´ between the 1820s and 1870s. Located only 35 miles from Paris, virtually unspoiled and uninhabited yet easily accessible, it was the ideal site to develop plein air painting in France.
MoMA | Monet's Water Lilies: MoMA | Monet's Water Lilies
For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. These include a mural-sized triptych (Water Lilies, 1914-26) and a single-panel painting of the water lilies in the Japanese-style pond that Monet cultivated on his property in Giverny, France (Water Lilies, 1914-26), as well as The Japanese Footbridge (c. 1920-22) and Agapanthus (1914-26), depicting the majestic plants in the pond's vicinity.
MoMA | Introduction to the exhibition Monet's Water Lilies - Audio Guide: MoMA | Introduction to the exhibition Monet's Water Lilies
MoMA | Claude Monet. Reflections of Weeping Willows. 1914-26 - Audio Guide: MoMA | Claude Monet. Reflections of Weeping Willows. 1914-26 | Audio
Claude Monet. Reflections of Weeping Willows. 1914-26
Oil on canvas, 51 3/16 x 78 3/4" (130 x 200 cm). Private collection
Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide
MoMA | Claude Monet. The Japanese Footbridge. c. 1920-22 - Audio Guide: MoMA | Claude Monet. The Japanese Footbridge. c. 1920-22 | Audio
Claude Monet. The Japanese Footbridge. c. 1920-22
French, 1840-1926
Oil on canvas. 35 1/4 x 45 7/8" (89.5 x 116.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide
MoMA | Claude Monet. Water Lilies (single panel). 1914-26 - Audio Guide: MoMA | Claude Monet. Water Lilies (single panel). 1914-26
Audio
Claude Monet. Water Lilies (single panel). 1914-26
French, 1840-1926
Oil on canvas. 6' 6 1/2" x 19' 7 1/2" (199.5 x 599 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide
Claude Monet - May 1 - June 26, 2010 - Gagosian Gallery: Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present "Claude Monet: Late Work." The most significant gathering of Monet's late paintings to take place in New York in more than thirty years, it will focus on the most important late subjects drawn from his gardens at Giverny-Nymphéas, Le pont japonais, and L'allée de rosiers-which are among the most treasured paintings of his long and prodigious career.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston - Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet: "Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet" tells the story of nineteenth-century landscape through 150 masterworks drawn from the celebrated collections of the Museum of Fine Arts. Featuring not only paintings but also pastels, watercolors, drawings, prints, and photographs, the exhibition is a rich and varied chronicle of one of the greatest art movements of all time-rightly called the School of Nature.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Exhibition - Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet: Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet
Sunday, December 15, 2002 - Sunday, April 13, 2003
"Impressions of Light" brings together almost two hundred paintings, pastels, watercolors, drawings, prints, and photographs to tell the story of one of the richest and most influential movements in the history of art. Beginning with Corot and the Barbizon School and ending with revolutionary compositions by Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh and the triumphant late works of Claude Monet, the exhibition explores the innovative and many-faceted development of French landscape in painting and the graphic arts.
Monet in Chicago - Claude Monet: 1840-1926 A Review by Mark Harden: The Art Institute of Chicago recently closed the curtain on one of the most successful art exhibits of all time. "Claude Monet: 1840-1926" was the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the paintings of the leader of the Impressionists. One hundred fifty-nine works from around the world were brought together for this once-in-a-lifetime show. The attendance was unparalleled. During its run from July 22 to November 26, 1995, advance admissions were completely sold out, leading to the surreal spectacle of tickets for an art exhibit being scalped as if it were the Super Bowl. the largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the paintings of the leader of the Impressionis
Exhibition Monet 2010 - RMN - Grand Palais - Paris: The website dedicated to this exhibition - sets a standard for all other exhibition websites!
Exhibition Monet 2010 - RMN - Grand Palais - Paris: The website dedicated to this exhibition - sets a standard for all other exhibition websites!
Tate Britain | Turner Monet Twombly 22 June - 28 October 2012: Turner Monet Twombly 22 June - 28 October 2012
This ambitious exhibition brings together works by J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Cy Twombly (1928-2011), three of the most prolific and well-known artists of all time. Turner Monet Twombly will explore the similarities between these artists in style, subject and artistic motivation.

BOOKS: Wildenstein's MONET CATALOGUE RAISONNE

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Claude Monet in Museums and Art Galleries

plus online sites which provide links to galleries around the world

This section links to all the websites about major collections of Monet paintings in museums and art galleries around the world.

Musee Marmottan, Paris - Claude Monet: The Museum possesses the world's largest collection of works by Claude Monet.
Musee de l'Orangerie: Musee de l'Orangerie

Six great intellectuals recently described the museum chosen and arranged by Claude Monet to showcase his "testamentary" masterpieces as "Unique in its genre".
Next to the Nymphéas, "the haven of peaceful meditation", a gift to modern man with his "overworked nerves", the Orangerie offers a fabulous concentration of masterpieces from the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume Collection, a highly original insight into modern art featuring Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso, Rousseau, Matisse, Derain, Modigliani, Soutine, Utrillo and Laurencin.
Closed for renovation work since January 2000, completely reviewed and restructured, the museum was reopened to the public in May 2006.
National Gallery of Art, Washington - Claude Monet: List of references to Claud Monet on the museum's website
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - ImageBase: Works by Claud Monet
MoMA.org | The Collection | Claude Monet. (French, 1840-1926): Paintings by Claude Monet in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Musee d'Orsay - Claude Monet: Works by Claude Monet in the permanent collection
MFA Boston: Works by Claude Monet in the permanent collection: Works by Claude Monet
Hill-Stead Museum - Highlights of the Collection: Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926) Fishing Boats at Sea, 1868, is the earliest Monet painting in Hill-Stead's collection, though it is the last work by this artist that Alfred Pope bought.
Wikimedia Commons - Paintings and Drawings by Claud Monet: Category:Claude Monet From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
All images must cite the source and reason why this image has been deposited in wikinedia commons
Artcyclopedia: Claude Monet Online: Claude Monet [French Impressionist Painter, 1840-1926] Guide to pictures of works by Claude Monet in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
The Art Institute of Chicago: The Collection: Selected Works of Monet: Selected Works Claude Monet
National gallery, London - Works by Monet: Works by Claude Monet in the collection of the National Gallery, London
Musee d'Orsay, Paris - work by Monet: Works by Monet in the collection of the Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Monet Originals - Where Held (Opening Page): Country-by-Country List of Museums Holding Originals - a useful tool to help you plan your next 'viewing trip'! We have listed all the publicly-accessible galleries that we are aware of which hold original works by Monet.
The National Museum of Western Art: Monet - 16 paintings in the permanent collection
National Galleries of Scotland - Claude Monet: 5 paintings by Claude Monet
Claude-Oscar Monet | artist | 1840 - 1926 | The National Gallery, London: Explore information about the artist: Claude-Oscar Monet. See list of paintings at the National Gallery, London.

Claud Monet - drawings and paintings online

In online websites which are not museums or galleries

Works by Monet can be found on many websites on the Internet. These are the main sites which provide an overview of his output

The Athenaeum - Monet: 1077 works, sorted by title, in alphabetical order. Please note that this list contains all of the artworks The Athenaeum has for Claude Oscar Monet. Other works may not be the site.
Claude Oscar Monet - The complete works: Claude Oscar Monet - Homepage. The complete works, large resolution images, ecard, rating, slideshow and more! One of the largest Claude Oscar Monet resource on the web!
Some Paintings of Claude Monet: Some Paintings by Claude Monet - © Copyright 2002, Jim Loy
Monet is my favorite painter. Here are a number of paintings from
ClickArt by Broderbund. The numbers are from the Catalogue Raisonne by Daniel Wildenstein.
Monet Painting: A both thematic and chronological approach of Claude MONET's impressionist art is presented through pictures of existing posters that you can order on-line.
WebMuseum: Monet, Claude: Reviews different periods of Monet's painting career. Includes a significant number of images but is not comprehensive
Famous Artists Gallery: Claude Monet: A painting by Claude Monet: Irises in the Artist's Garden at Giverny - 1900
Artilim - Claude Monet: Search and browse Claude Monet paintings gallery, read Claude Monet biography and find information about Monet's life and work.
Artchive - Claude Monet: Claude Monet images and biography
Claude Monet - Olga's Gallery: One of the largest online painting museums. New exhibits daily. Biographies and main works of many famous artists. Excellent quality of reproductions. Historical comments.

MONET AND IMPRESSIONISM

Impression, Sunrise
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BOOKS: The Colour of Time

Claude Monet and Impressionism

Mark Harden's Artchive: The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874: The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874
In the former studio of the photographer Nadar at 35 boulevard des Capucines, Paris, April 15, 1874, a group of artists, rejected by the juries of the Salon, offer their work for public view. Although some critics appreciate the "new painting", most subject
En plein air - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: En plein air From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yale University Press London - The Art of Impressionism - painting techniques and the making of modernity: This book contains a lot of detail about the technical details relating to how Monet (and other Impressionist artists) painted. (This book is the first listed in the Amazon section below)

extract from YUP:
This magnificent book is the first full-scale exploration of Impressionist technique. Focusing on the easel-painted work of Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cezanne, Cassatt, Morisot, Caillebotte, Sisley, and Degas in the period before 1900, it places their methods and materials in a historical perspective and evaluates their origins, novelty, and meanings within the visual formation of urban modernity. Drawing on scientific studies of pigments and materials, artists' treatises, colormens' archives, and contemporary and modern accounts, Anthea Callen demonstrates how raw materials and paintings are profoundly interdependent.
Making a Mark: The Art of Impressionism and associated painting techniques: I highly recommend Professor Anthea Callen's book The Art of Impressionism - painting techniques and the making of modernity (2000, Yale University Press) for anybody who, like me, likes the work of Impressionist painters and is also fascinated by the preparation and process behind the making of art. If you want to know more about what the Impressionist artists used for paint, what sort of canvases and grounds they painted on, how they applied their paint, where and in what sort of conditions they painted and finally whether and how they varnished and framed their works then this is the book for you!
Mark Harden's Artchive: "Impressionism": Impressionism

BOOKS: Monet and Impressionism

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La Pie, Effet de Neige
Claude Monet

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MONET'S GARDEN AT GIVERNY

Monet in the Water Garden

Monet created his Water Garden - with its Japanese Bridge - from scratch.
Source: Wikipedia

I work constantly and lovingly on my garden. What I need most are flowers, always, always. My heart is always in Giverny.
Claude Monet

Water Lilies
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Location of Monet's home and garden at Giverny

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Find out about Monet's Garden at Giverny

information for visitors

Monet's garden at Giverny is an important motif in his later work. There is so much information about it that I've created a separate website which is all about the garden (see below). It includes videos I shot of both the flower garden and the water garden in October 2009.

Monet's home and gardens at Giverny

These are a few links to information about the garden at Giverny and how to visit it

Giverny - Vernon : Claude Monet's garden map: Map of the gardens of Claude Monet at Giverny
Giverny Claude Monet's garden in Autumn Photo: Photos by Anne Chrysoteme of Claude Monet's garden in Fall. The water garden in Giverny and the water lilies.
Giverny.org - Information about the Giverny area and dardens including Claude Monet's giverny garden: This is an informative site developed to provide information about Moent's gardens, Giverny and the area around.
Giverny, Fondation Claude Monet - a Gardens Guide review: Gardens Guide Review - Fondation Claude Monet,musee Monet,27620 Giverny, Haute-Normandie, France
Giverny News - Le Blog d'Ariane: Giverny News - a blog in French (Click on the flag on the left to have babelfish translate it into the language of your chice)
Giverny, as Monet Painted It and Lived It - New York Times: Article in the New York Times about a visit to Giverny - published August 30th 1987
giverny-monet.com: Includes: how to go From Paris to Vernon on your own; From Vernon to Giverny on your own; the village of Giverny etc
Giverny News: Giverny News - Le Blog d'Ariane,

PHOTOS: The "Clos Normand" at Giverny

My photos of Monet's flower garden - taken on a visit to Giverny on 1st October 2009

This is a slideshow of the photos I took in the Clos Normand - the flower garden - at Giverny on 1 October 2009. This part of the garden is right next to the House and comprises beds of flowers in rows

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BOOK: Monet's garden

Monet's Garden in Art

by: Debra N Mancoff

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This is the first book to focus on Monet's garden at Giverny as seen through his paintings. Debra Mancoff offers a revealing insight into the artist and his work. Monet's garden in Normandy was a private haven and became as powerful a passion in his life as painting - he chose his planting schemes as carefully as he chose colours for his palette. It was also the inspiration for his art, and the subject of some of his greatest paintings.

Exploring his vision of the world of beauty he brought into being, Debra Mancoff shows how Monet's endeavours as a gardener were an essential part of his identity as a painter and how his artistic vision drew strength from his passion for his garden.

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BOOKS: Monet and Giverny

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PHOTOS: Water Garden at Giverny

My photos of the water garden at Giverny - from my visit on 1st October 2009

This slideshow provides you with an idea of what it's like to walk around the water garden at Giverny

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VIDEO - Monet's Nympheas in the Musée de l'Orangerie

This video shows you the paintings Monet made of the water garden which are now in the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris. We saw the paintings and then drove to Giverny and visited the garden. You can do it the other way round but either way it's a very special treat and highly recommended by me!

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VIDEO - Nympheas large and small

A slideshow of my photos taken in the Musee de l'Orangerie - showing the full size of some of the Grand Decorations and also some close-ups of his brushwork on these exceptionally large paintings

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Claude Monet in his garden in Giverny with an unidentified visito

An image of Claude Monet in his garden in Giverny with an unidentified visitor. From The New York Times photo archive, dated only 1922, author not given (the image presumably in a Times December 24, 1922 profile on the painter).
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Film of Impressionist Painter Claude Monet at Work

in the Water Garden at Giverny

This is unique film of great Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) at work on a canvas en plein air in the water garden of his home at Giverny in Normandy.

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Making A Mark - Gardens in Art by Claude Monet

blog posts about Claude Monet

In 2007, I did a project on Gardens in Art on my blog 'Making A Mark'. As part of this I researched Monet's approach to painting the various gardens he knew and visited during his lifetime. You can read the resulting blog posts below together with a post which highlights what I found out.

Subsequently I did a project about working in series and focused on Monet's series paintings.

Other posts on my blog about Monet are also listed here.

Gardens in Art continues - with Monet: Now just in case anybody doesn't know much about Monet and gardens, I thought I'd start with some links to biographical information about the man himself and then some to information about his garden at Giverny. Have a peek at the gardens and you'll see a number of the reasons why I'm a fan. I finish with some brief information to the books that I expect to be using for my research.
Gardens in Art: Monet and Argenteuil: Monet is forever associated with the garden at Giverny. However some of the most famous Impressionist paintings of gardens are associated with the time Monet spent at Argenteuil.
Gardens in Art - Monet and Vétheuil: Monet and paintings of the garden at Vétheuil.
Gardens in Art: Monet and the Mediterranean: Before tackling the water garden at Giverny, I first want to look at the paintings of gardens which Monet did while travelling in the Mediterranean in the 1880s and which preceded the development of the water garden.
Gardens in Art: Monet and the flower garden at Giverny: When I visited Giverny for the first time I was immediately struck by the fact that Monet did not only create art with oils. His garden was also an artistic creation and is quite simply a living picture created out of nature. It's a sublime example of an artist selecting and creating the objects and their arrangements as part of the 'set-up' for his painting.
Gardens in Art: Monet and the water garden at Giverny: Of all the images associated with Monet, the water lilies and the Japanese bridge over the pool in the water garden at Giverny are perhaps the most well known. For more than 25 years, he painted them again and again. As a result there are many versions in museums and art galleries around the world.
Making a Mark: Gardens in Art: Monet's final Nympheas: This post is about the final and probably some of the most famous of Monet's paintings - the Grand Decorations which are now housed in the Orangerie Museum in the Tuileries Garden in Paris. They had a long birth.
Gardens in Art: Monet - the story so far: This post summarises some of the lessons I've learned so far about Monet and includes a pastel painting which tries to exemplify some of things I've learned.
Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915: Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915 celebrates the colony of American artists who came to Giverny to paint prior to the first world war. The exhibition runs until July 1st after which it transfers to the San Diego Museum of Art from July 21 to September 30th 2007. (I gather there are lots of paintings of haystacks!)

The Musée d'Art Américain was originally opened in Giverny to explore the connections - both historic and aesthetic - between French and American artists arising out of the colony of American artists which developed in and around the village of Giverny.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings: Pastels, drawings, sketchbooks and Monet - four of my favourite things are combined in the new exhibition about "The Unknown Monet" at the Royal Academy of Arts until 10th June 2007. The exhibition then moves to the Sterling and Francine Carter Art Institute in Williamstown in Massachusetts from 24th June until 16th September 2007.
World record bid for Le Bassin aux Nymphéa by Monet: Last night, Le Bassin aux Nymphe%u0301a by Claude Monet sold for a world record bid of £40.1 million (that's $79,138,799.84 USD at today's prices before commission etc).

The previous highest price paid for a Monet was set only last month when Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil (1873) was sold for £21.5 million / $41 million in New York. (You can see a photograph of the painting here). Prior to that the auction record was £19.8 million - but this was set 10 years ago. Christies must be very happy people having been responsible for the sale of both paintings. They've received bids totally £61.6m ($120m) for just two paintings by the same artist
The Grande Allée at Giverny: One of Claude Monet's outstanding achievements was the design and construction of the gardens at his home at Giverny - which then provided subjects for many of his more famous paintings. I did this pastel painting of the Grande Allée at Giverny a while back. The nasturtiums cover the path and gradually make their way across the path over the course of the summer.
Making a Mark: The garden behind the paintings - Giverny: I've written about Monet and his gardens before - at some length - but this is the first time I've been able to show readers what Monet's garden at Giverny actually looks like.

Below you can find two videos. You can imagine you're Monet is you like (if you ignore the noise from cars and other visitors!) and take
* A walk around Giverny - #1 The Water Garden - a non-stop walk around the perimeter of the water garden at Giverny. It was 12 minutes but I've snipped and shaved it down to 2 seconds under 10 minutes
* A walk around Giverny - #2 The Close Normand (the flower garden) - the walk back up to the house through the Clos Normand (flower garden) to the door into 'la maison'

MONET AND LANDSCAPES

BOOKS: Monet's Landscapes and Nature

Monet's Landscapes

The Art of the Landscape: 40 Antibes landscapes in 4 months by Claude Monet: Monet produced a large number of paintings of Antibes, all painted in fourmonths between January and May of 1888. They're not really a series but I think I'd argue that they're very much a stepping stone towards his series paintings of the 1890s.
Making a Mark: "Impressionists by the Sea" at the Royal Academy: This exhibition includes work by Monet

Spring in Giverny, 1890
Claude Monet

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Willows of Vetheuil
Claude Monet

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Monet and Boats

Watermarks: The Studio Boat #1 - Monet's bateau atelier: Claude Monet is renowned for painting plein air. He even took his studio outdoors and on to the water for some of his paintings. In 1873 Monet had a 'fruitful sale' which enabled him to have a studio boat built.

Monet: 2012 Wall Calendar

produced on behalf of the Washington D.C. National Gallery of Art

The Monet 2012 Wall Calendar features 12 of the modern master's most iconic works from the National Gallery of Art from a span of 40 years. All twelve works are featured in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington and include:
* The Artist's Garden at Vetheuil,
* The Japanese Footbridge
* The Seine at Giverny
* Jerusalem Artichoke Flowers
* Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and her son
* Ships riding on the Seine at Rouen
* Palazzo da Mula, Venice
* The Bridge at Argenteuil
* Rouen Cathedral, West Facade
* Banks of the Seine Vertheuil
* The Houses of Parliament, Sunset
* Waterloo Bridge, London, at Dusk

Monet: 2012 Wall Calendar

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MONET AND SERIES PAINTINGS

Monet and Series paintings

Monet devoted considerable energy to developing series paintings in the 1890s.

His most celebrated series are
- the haystacks (1891)
- the poplars (1892) and
- the facades of Rouen Cathedral (1892-1894)
- the nympheas (waterlilies) in his water garden at Giverny

Monet tended to control the perspective and 'fix' his subject matter by sitting in the same position. He then allowed the natural light and atmospheric conditions to vary from picture to picture. It's very much an experimental approach.

NGA - Claude Monet: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Tour: Claude Monet: The Series Paintings
Lycos - Monet - Series: Monet's interest in recording perceptual processes reached its apogee in his series paintings (e.g., Haystacks [1891], Poplars [1892], Rouen Cathedral [1894]) that dominate his output in the 1890s.
National Gallery of Art - Monet 's Series Paintings: A pdf file exhibition guide

Making A Mark: Monet's Series Paintings

blog posts about Claude Monet

In the 1890s, Monet began major series of paintings of the same motif - at different times of day and season. Below you can various of my blog posts about Monet's series paintings

Making a Mark: Why and how Monet developed his series paintings: This post looks at:
* why Monet painted series paintings
* when he painted his series paintings
* the various reasons leading to his choice of subject matter
* which paintings are regarded as part of his series paintings
* and finally, how he actually designed and painted the series paintings from a practice perspective.
Making a Mark: Monet's series paintings - stacks of wheat: Wheatstacks in a field next to Claude Monet's home at Giverny were the motif of his first attempt at a large series of paintings.

The series of paintings of stacks are about Monet's obsession with identifying and exploring the colour of the 'enveloppe' at different times of the day and in different seasons. He's not so much painting the objects in the painting as painting the atmosphere (the 'enveloppe' ) surrounding them.

He started painting in late September 1890. The process adopted for painting 25 canvases portraying the stacks over a period of 7 months was as follows.....
Making a Mark: Monet's series paintings - Rouen cathedral: An account of the development of Monet's series paintings of Rouen Cathedral

I vividly remember the first time I ever saw any of Monet's series paintings of Rouen Cathedral. I was on my very first visit to Paris which naturally means it was also my very first visit to the Musée d'Orsay. The museum has an amazing room (salle 34) full of impressionist paintings which I highly recommend as a "must see" for anybody visiting Paris.
Making a Mark: Turkeys and Monet's Montgeron series: The Turkeys at Montgeron is the only painting I know in which Claude Monet painted birds. It was planned and painted as part of series of four decorative panels commissioned by his patron Ernest Hoschedé.

Monet Series Paintings - resources for art lovers

Monet series paintings - Haystacks / Grainstacks

Haystacks is the title of a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. The primary subjects of all of the paintings in the series are stacks of hay that have been stacked in the field after the harvest season. The title refers primarily to a twenty-five canvas series (Wildenstein Index Number 1266-1290) begun the autumn of 1890 and continued through the following spring, using that year's harvest. Some use a broader definition of the title to refer to other paintings by Monet with this same theme. The series is known for its thematic use of repetition to show differences in perception of light across various times of day, seasons, and types of weather. The subjects were painted in fields near Monet's home in Giverny, France.

The series is among Monet's most notable works. Although the largest collections of Monet's work are held in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay and Musée Marmottan Monet, Boston, Massachusetts at the Museum of Fine Arts, New York City at the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo at the National Museum of Western Art, six of the twenty-five haystacks pieces are currently housed at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, United States holds two and The Louvre in Paris, France holds one.

Other museums that hold parts of this series in their collection include the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, Connecticut (which also has one of five from the earlier 1888-9 harvest), National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, Kunsthaus Zürich in Zürich, Switzerland, and Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, United States. Several private collections also hold Haystack paintings.

Haystacks (Monet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Haystacks (Monet) From Wikipedia

Cathedrale de Rouen, Effet Du Matin
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Monet Series Paintings - Rouen Cathedral

Claude Monet painted Rouen Cathedral between 1892 and 1894 has and created a series of 31 canvases showing the facade of the Gothic RouenCathedral under different conditions of light and climate

See the separated website I've created for more about this series

Claude Monet - The Rouen Cathedral series by Monet: Claude Monet - The Rouen Cathedral Portal series by Monet - an analysis of the paintings considered to be the climax of Impressionism
Rouen Cathedral (Monet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Rouen Cathedral (Monet) From Wikipedia
Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the Rouen Cathedral. The paintings mostly have one viewpoint but are however painted at different times of the day and at different weather circumstances.
The Getty Museum - The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light: A work by Monet from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection.

Cathedrale de Rouen, Plein Soleil
Claude Monet

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VIDEO: Rouen Cathedral

A video of the view from my hotel bedroom on 2nd October 2009

Monet created a series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral in Normandy. This is the view from my hotel bedroom window. Sketches can be seen on Travels with a Sketchbook http://travelsketch.blogspot.com

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BOOKS: Monet and the Series Paintings

Monet Series Paintings - the Manneporte at Étretat

Étretat is a fishing village and resort along the Normandy coast. Monet visited it in 1883, 1885, and 1886.

The series of paintings at paintings done at Étretat focus on the coastline and some of the dramatic rock formations. The most prominent of these is the Manneporte. This is the subject of six canvases. These are important as they mark the beginning of his practice of painting in series.
The Manneporte, or Great Portal, is the largest of Étretat's three limestone arches and is not visible from the town of Etretat. . It's been depicted in thousands of paintings and photographs, but was usually viewed from a distance. Monet sought unique views, climbing over steep cliffs and looking at familiar motifs from unusual angles. He also chose to paint it up close and from a boat

Étretat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Étretat is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.
Étretat is best known for its cliffs, including a famous natural arch. These cliffs and the associated resort beach attracted artists including Eugène Boudin, Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet.

Two of the three famous arches seen from the town are the Porte d'Aval, and the Porte d'Amont. The Manneporte is the third which cannot be seen from the town.
File:La Manneporte-Etretat-Normandie.jpg - Wikimedia Commons: Image of the Manneporte on Wikipedia
Claude Monet: The Manneporte near Etretat (31.67.11) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Manneporte near Étretat, 1886 by Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Oil on canvas 32 x 25 3/4 in. (81.3 x 65.4 cm)
Signed and dated (lower left): Claude Monet 86

Outlines Monet's practice of painting at Etretat
National Gallery of Australia - The Manneporte (Etretat) by Claude Monet: Group: Forces of Nature | Artist: Claude MONET | Birth/Death: 1840–1926
Title: The Manneport

Monet's works from the 1880s are painted in a more dynamic manner than his earlier works.

The bold calligraphy of Japanese ink paintings of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries embodies the latent forces within rocks, cliffs and water, as do Monet's long linear brushstrokes in his paintings of similar subjects on the French coast. In contrast to the monochrome line and wash of ink painting, Monet's lines are coloured, thick and pastey, and adhere together to form a dense, mobile surface. The rearing cliff in The Manneporte (Etretat) is built up from broad patches of colour covered with line after line of saturated ochres, rusty reds, zigzags and glazes of blue-violet or blue-green. The nature of the brushmarks suggests that they were painted rapidly; they not only embody the dynamic, upward thrust of the motif, but also enact the dynamism of the creative act. Such calligraphy suggests a direct expressive relationship between the marks of the brush and the structure of the motif, the strata and lines of force in cliff face and rock arch, and the weathering by water and wind.
Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Manne-Porte, Étretat: Claude Monet Manne-Porte, Étretat
Monet was impressed by the grandeur of the massive cleft cliff at Étretat, a natural monument along the Normandy coast. He emphasized its awesome isolation by painting the great vertical faces of the receding cliffs set against a sea that merges imperceptibly into the sky.
The Manneporte, Etretat, 1883 | guardian.co.uk Arts: The Manneporte, Etretat, 1883
Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 81.3cm | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Monet: The Seine and the Sea, 1878-1883

The Cliff, Etretat, Sunset, 1883
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The Cliffs at Etretat
Claude Monet
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Monet Series paintings - Morning on the Seine

The Art Institute of Chicago - Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist): Claude Monet 1840-1926
Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist), from the series "Mornings on the Seine", 1897 Oil on canvas 35 3/8 x 36 1/2 in. (89.9 x 92.7 cm) Inscribed lower left: Claude Monet
Morning on the Seine, near Giverny | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: This painting was a gift of Mts W Scott Fitzgerald. This version is notable for its softness. Its colors of pinkish mauve, cool blues, and greens are matched with large, simple, and rounded shapes. With the point of view suspended over the water, we are made to feel weightless, perhaps even bodiless. Almost symmetrical reflections threaten to disorient us, but Monet has left enough clues to let us know which way is up.

The Seine at Giverny, Morning Mists, 1897
Claude Monet

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Monet series paintings - waterlillies

The waterlily paintings are the signature motif at the end of Monet's painting career

Monet's Water Lilies bloom again | World news | The Guardian: They are among the most popular paintings in the world but for decades they were starved of natural light and displayed in a building likened to an oversized garden shed.
Monet's gardens at Giverny - The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts: Monet built a new studio space at Giverny and began work on a concept derived from his series paintings of the 1890s, to create a decorative cycle of water lily paintings. He imagined the finished works entirely surrounding the viewer in an oval room. He built moveable easels and worked on hundreds of these paintings from the years 1916 through 1926, painting in his garden during the summer and then reworking the painted surfaces in the studio throughout the winters.
National Gallery: Monet - The Water-Lily Pond: In 1883 Monet moved from the north-west of Paris to Giverny where he lived until his death. Adjacent to his property was a small pond which he acquired in 1893, where he created a water garden with an arched bridge in the Japanese style. In 1900 he exhibited a series of ten canvases of the pond, showing a single subject in differing light conditions.
MoMA.org | The Collection | Conservation | Unveiling Monet: Claude Monet. Water Lilies. c.1920.
Oil on canvas, triptych, each section 6'6" x 14" (200 x 425 cm).The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund.

Unveiling Monet
- Genesis of a restoration
- History of the waterlilies
- Monet's method
- Treatment analysis
- Restoration process
Tate Collection | Water-Lilies by Claude Monet: The water-lily pond at Monet's home in Giverny, north-west of Paris, became the principal motif of his later paintings. Filling the canvas, the surface of the pond becomes a world in itself, inspiring a sense of immersion in nature. Monet's observations of the changing patterns of light on the surface of the water become almost abstract. The paintings were not fully appreciated in Monet's lifetime, and when they were reassessed in 1950s, some critics viewed them as precursors of Abstract Expressionism.
WebMuseum: Monet, Claude: Waterlilies: Monet, Claude: Waterlilies
Water Lilies (The Clouds)1903 (180 Kb); Oil on canvas, 74.6 x 105.3 cm (29 3/8 x 41 7/16 in);
Private collection
Water Lilies1906 (190 Kb); Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 92.7 cm (34 1/2 x 36 1/2 in);
The Art Institute of Chicago
Waterlilies, Green Reflection, Left Part
1916-1923; Orangerie, Paris
Claude Monet Waterlilies to fetch £18million - Telegraph: The most important work from Claude Monet's Waterlilies series ever to be offered at auction in Europe is expected to fetch about £18 million in London next month, Christie's have said. (May 2008)
Monet water lily paintings to make UK debut at Tate Liverpool | Art and design | The Guardian: An exhibition of Monet, Turner and Twombly at Tate Liverpool will include two water lilies paintings never seen in the UK

Monet series paintings - London (Parliament and bridges)

Monet's paintings of London includes paintings of the Houses of Parliament and views of Charing Cross bridge and Waterloo bridge.

All are dominated by variations in the light and atmosphere due to the famous London fog, which enveloped the city in the late nineteenth century, especially in autumn and winter.

Musée d'Orsay: Claude Monet London, Houses of Parliament: The London Houses of Parliament crop up regularly in Monet's work in 1900. At first the artist observed them from the terrace of St Thomas Hospital, on the opposite bank, near Westminster Bridge.
The Art Institute of Chicago - Houses of Parliament: Claude Monet French, 1840-1926
Houses of Parliament, London, 1900-01 Oil on canvas 31 7/8 x 36 1/4 in. (81 x 92 cm) Inscribed at lower right: Claude Monet Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1
The Art Institute of Chicago - Charing Cross Bridge 1901: Claude Monet French, 1840-1926
Charing Cross Bridge, London, 1901 Oil on canvas 25 x 36 in. (63.5 x 91.4 cm) Inscribed lower right: Claude Monet 1901 Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1150
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo - Charing-Cross Bridge in London: Charing-Cross Bridge in London c.1902
Monet's Waterloo Bridge drawing on show at Savoy hotel | Art and design | The Guardian: Waterloo Bridge pastel on sale for £1.5m was sketched from Savoy hotel balcony in 1901
Monet's Waterloo Bridge back in residence | News: A picture of Waterloo Bridge sketched by Claude Monet from the Savoy more than 100 years ago has returned to the hotel for the first time since it was created.

London, the Parliament; Reflections on the Thames River, 1899-1901
Claude Monet

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Important!

MONET - DRAWING AND PASTELS

You must begin by drawing

Draw simply and directly, with charcoal, crayon or whatever, above all observing the contours, because you can never be too sure of holding on to them, once you start to paint.'
Claude Monet

Monet - Drawing and Pastels

'You must begin by drawing. Draw simply and directly, with charcoal, crayon or whatever, above all observing the contours, because you can never be too sure of holding on to them, once you start to paint.'
Claude Monet

Claude Monet (1840 -1926) spent most of his life staunchly denying the role drawing played in his creative process. Critics, biographers and journalists did not write about it, and his paintings were often praised for their lack of it

This section looks at the evidence that Monet drew rather more than people think. He also used pastels to produce studies and finished works of art.

There are just over 100 works by Monet in pastel on paper - and hence they are regarded as very rare. They're not often seen in exhibitions.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049131/Monets-pastel-drawings-Londons-Waterloo-Bridge-sale.html#ixzz1cjh7A35J

It highlights the 2007 exhibition "The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings" at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. This offered a new interpretation of the artist's life and work. The 80 works in the exhibition - from private collections and museums in the USA, Europe and Japan - make a link between the works on paper and on canvas.

This was the first exhibition
* to be solely devoted to Monet's pastels and drawings.
* to examine and display his use of drawing in the preparatory stages of full scale works
* to make the contents of his sketchbooks accessible to the public - examples are available within the exhibition as online digital images online
* to display some of the works in any exhibition - as they belong to private collections.

Royal Academy of Arts, London (March 17 - June 10, 2007)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (June 24 - September 16, 2007)

The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings - Exhibitions - Royal Academy of Arts: This exhibition was the the first devoted to Monet's drawings and pastels. It offers a ground-breaking exploration of the role of draughtsmanship throughout the artist's long career. It shed new light on Monet's working methods by presenting a significant body of his preparatory studies, finished drawings and pastels, alongside representative examples of his paintings
Unknown: a pdf file which provides an introduction to the exhibition "The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings" at the Royal Academy of Arts
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings. 2007 summer exhibition at the Clark, Williamstown, MA. View an online interactive of Monet's sketchbooks, listen to Audio Tour selections, and follow Monet's career from young draftsman to master painter.
Monet Sketchbooks | Musee Marmottan Monet and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: Monet Sketchbooks: From the Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris. Developed by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings: The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings. 2007 summer exhibition at the Clark, Williamstown, MA. View an online interactive of Monet's sketchbooks, listen to Audio Tour selections, and follow Monet's career from young draftsman to master painter.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | The Young Draftsman: MONET'S EARLIEST KNOWN WORKS of art are drawings dating from his teenage years in the bustling coastal community of Le Havre
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | Drawing and Painting: IN THE EARLY 1860s Monet experimented with many different drawing techniques.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | Sketchbooks: MONET MADE USE OF SKETCHBOOKS from his early years in Le Havre through his final period of activity at Giverny.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | Pastels: AT THE FIRST IMPRESSIONIST EXHIBITION in 1874, Monet showed seven pastels alongside his oil paintings.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | Monet in Print: Before photography could capture the nuances of his canvases, Monet played an active role in publishing his work by producing black-and-white drawings after his paintings that were suitable for reproduction in letterpress.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | The Late Decades: THE ROLE OF DRAWING in Monet's art changed yet again in his later career.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | List of Works: Complete list of works in the exhibition
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | Chronology: Chronology of his drawing activities
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | Audio Tour of Exhibition: AUDIO TOUR
Click to listen to twelve audio selections from The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings. 2007 summer exhibition at the Clark, Williamstown, MA.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings | Culture | guardian.co.uk: SLIDESHOW Preview the Royal Academy's The Unknown Monet exhibition in our gallery.
MAKING A MARK: The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings: Pastels, drawings, sketchbooks and Monet - four of my favourite things are combined in the new exhibition about "The Unknown Monet" at the Royal Academy of Arts until 10th June 2007. The exhibition then moves to the Sterling and Francine Carter Art Institute in Williamstown in Massachusetts from 24th June until 16th September 2007.
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings - Art - Review - New York Times: The exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute unfurls a new look at the role of drawing in the creative process of an artist whom we have always thought of as a painter, not a draftsman.
Monet's painstaking early drawings are a fresh revelation of his skill, says AS Byatt | Books | The Guardian: We think we know Monet's work, and he encouraged the idea of his painting as 'impulsive, unrehearsed creativity'. But his painstaking early drawings in chalk and pencil are a fresh revelation of his skill…
The drawings of Monet: Clark Art Institute shows artist's hidden side - The New York Times: "Monet wanted to present himself as the great painter of his day," said Richard Kendall, curator at large at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. "It was a kind of PR exercise, a way of defining himself. But the big, teasing question has always been why didn't he want people to know he drew?"
Outside the lines - Boston.com: WILLIAMSTOWN -- Claude Monet , conventional wisdom has long had it, was not much of a draftsman. The great Impressionist painter himself cultivated the myth that he rarely made drawings or preparatory studies for his paintings. He wanted to portray himself as a painter of the open air, an anti-academic rebel, an avant-garde pioneer who brought to the act of painting an unprecedented spontaneity and sensuous immediacy.
Monet's pastel drawings of London's Waterloo Bridge for sale | Mail Online: The French impressionist travelled to England in 1901 and after his equipment was taken at the port he was forced to buy some pastels. This article recounts his experience with pastels and why there were important.

The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings (Clark Art Institute)

by Curator James A. Ganz (Author), Mr. Richard Kendall (Author)

Gold medal winner of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the category of Fine Art.
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This catalogue was produced in 2007 for the exhibition of drawings in London and Massachusetts.

This book is the first to focus on Monet's pastels, drawings, and sketchbooks, offering a revolutionary new interpretation of the artist's life and work.Monet has long been seen as an anti-draftsman, an artist who painted his subjects directly and whose rarely seen graphic works were marginal to his artistic process. In an effort to develop his public image, Monet denied the role of drawing in his working method. In actuality, Monet began his career as a caricaturist and as a teenager developed a passion for drawing that was never extinguished. He went on to master the medium of pastel and included seven in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874.

See my review of the exhibition The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings

The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings (Clark Art Institute)

by: Curator James A. Ganz, Mr. Richard Kendall

Amazon Price: $27.92 (as of 02/15/2012)

Hardcover: 328 pages
Publisher: Clark Art Institute (April 26, 2007)

MONET AND JAPANESE ART

Monet and Japanese Art

Monet never travelled to japan but he developed a taste for Japanese art - particularly woodblock prints - which are displayed in his home at Giverny

Japanese Bookblock, Claude Monet's collection: HOKUSAI Katsushika, The Great Wave at Kanagawa
A new vision of movement for Western artists Monet's collection of Japanese WoodBlocks
See also :
Japanese Woodblocks by Hokusai
Japanese Woodblocks by Hiroshige
National Gallery of Australia: Monet & Japan: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 9 March - 11 June 2001;
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth 7 July - 16 September 2001
39 of Monet's best paintings from the world's greatest collections, alongside an extensive selection of Japanese prints and paintings, vividly demonstrate Monet's intimate relationship with Japanese art.
National gallery of Australia: Monet & Japan - exhibition theme - Giverny: Images in the exhibition on the theme of Giverny
National Gallery Australia: Monet & Japan - exhibition theme "The Series": Images in the exhibition associated with the theme "The Series"
NGA: Monet & Japan - exhibition theme "The Forces of Nature": Images from the exhibition theme - Forces of Nature
NGA Monet & Japan - exhibition theme: "Modern Life, Modern Vision": Images from the exhibition theme Modern Life Modern Vision

BOOKS: Monet and Japanese art

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Claude Monet at Auction

notes on works at auction and prices paid

The price that Monet's paintings fetch at auction continues to astonish

The price of Monet: gone for £40m as confidence in the market stays strong | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts: "One of Claude Monet's large waterlily paintings was sold for £40.1m at a sale in London last night, smashing the world record price for the artist.

Le Bassin aux Nympheas is one of a series by Monet that anticipate abstract art. Only a handful of buyers have the financial clout to bid for such a work. The record for a Monet, set in New York in May, was £21.5m."

Art work is most important from water lily series ever to be offered for sale in Europe
Mark Brown, arts correspondent
Wednesday June 25, 2008 The Guardian
The Most Expensive Lilies in the World: A late period work by Claude Monet was recently purchased for over 80 million US dollars at Christie's in London. The painting, entitled 'Le Bassin aux Nympheas' set the record for a painting by Monet. The previous record for one of the impressionist master's works was 41 million dollars.
Monet Sells For $10.3 Million at Christie's Auction - Speakeasy - WSJ: The overall art market is bleak, but there's some money to be made in Claude Monet. Christie's just sold the artist's leafy Parisan park view, "Au Parc Monceau," for $10.3 million, well over its $7.3 million high estimate
Impressionist and Modern art evening Sale | 8 Feb 2012 | Sotheby's - Catalogue: L'Entrée de Giverny en hiver sold at Sothebys auction for £8.2 million
Rarity Makes Hearts Beat Faster | New York Times: Monet's 1885 view of the road leading to Giverny under snow sold for £8.2 million, well above the estimate set at £4.5 million to £6.5 million plus a sale charge in excess of 12 percent...."L'Entrée de Giverny en hiver," which had never been offered at auction, had been out of the market since 1924. It appeared in a museum show only once - the "Claude Monet" retrospective in 1930 at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris

The Road to Giverny, Winter, 1885
Claude Monet

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Articles about Monet paintings

Monet, Picasso Fetch $20 Million; Auction Shrinks 74% (Update1) - Bloomberg.com: A painting by Claude Monet and one by Pablo Picasso sold for 12.1 million pounds combined ($20 million) at Christie's International in London last night as the
auction market for Impressionist art contracted 74 percent.
Monet Painting of Wife Sells for 11.2 Million Pounds - Bloomberg.com: A Claude Monet painting of his wife Camille reclining in a flower-strewn meadow sold at Christie's International in London for 11.2 million pounds ($16.2 million) with fees. This was less than the 15 millions pounds estimated value prior to the sale.
How Monet, Freud, Hirst Records Led Art-Market Bubble to Burst - Bloomberg.com: June: A series of Impressionist sales in London, led by the Monet painting, gave few indications that the mood in the market was about to change.

Christie's auction on June 24 fetched 144.4 million pounds with fees, the highest-ever total for a European art sale.

Monet's 1919 "Le Bassin aux Nympheas" topped the evening with a record 40.9 million pounds, doubling the low estimate.
The Guardian / Jonathan Jones - Why Monet's art haunts my dreams: Jonathan Jones: Misconceived as an 'easy' artist, Claude Monet's unnerving talent for mood in fact speaks directly to our subconscious
Monet Sells For $10.3 Million at Christie's Auction - Speakeasy - WSJ: The overall art market is bleak, but there's some money to be made in Claude Monet. Christie's just sold the artist's leafy Parisan park view, ?Au Parc Monceau,? for $10.3 million, well over its $7.3 million high estimate

Blogging about Claude Monet

Posts from various blogs about Claude Monet, his home and garden at Giverny and his studio

Giverny - Monet's House: Monet's house at Giverny looks exceptionally long while it is shallow. The reason for this disproportion? Monet bought a medium sized farm, but he needed more space because of his extended family. Therefore he added two wings to the original building. On the right he...
Giverny Monet in his studio: This is a view of Claude Monet standing in his first studio amidst his favorite canvases. The light of the afternoon is almost palpable. This room located in his main house at Giverny was turned into his sitting-room after 1890. When Monet became successful,...
Giverny - The Snowy Garden: An unusual view of Giverny: Monet's water garden is covered by snow. Not much but enough to transfigure the usually colourfull garden. The pond is frozen, except for the place around the island and the borders. In the background the roses arches at the...

Making A Mark

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Tremendous resource work for this lens! Very informational and helpful to me about my wife's favorite artist!

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Very good lens, very educational.

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Very informative! Liked.

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This is a wonderful site (sorry lens) about Monet. Making it a features lens over on my lens about art (incl spanish art) as part of my degree course - hope to see over there sometime

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great lens for monet fans

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fugeecat Oct 18, 2011 @ 8:17 pm | delete

Monet's painting are beautiful.

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Upon-Request Oct 11, 2011 @ 9:02 pm | delete

Excellent lens and one of my favorite artists!

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Phillyfreeze69 Oct 5, 2011 @ 5:49 pm | delete

We all can learn from Monet life and career and that is to follow the vision that you have for yourself and dam the critics!...The Impressionist Movement was founded by artist with a like vision.
Thanks for constructing such a comprehensive and resource fill lens on Oscar Clude Monet.

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TheWhistler Sep 14, 2011 @ 11:33 am | delete

I would have liked to have seen more of his work, but it is clear you put a great deal of work into this lens. Blessed.

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makingamark Sep 14, 2011 @ 1:41 pm | delete

Thanks for the blessing - much appreciated.

This lens is designed to be a compendium of links to a wider spectrum of information rather than a gallery. I you click rather a lot of the links you will be transported to any number of sites which have a lot of images of Monet's paintings

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daria369 Aug 26, 2011 @ 9:46 pm | delete

Great tribute to one of the greatest painters of all times. Blessed! :)

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prosperity66 Aug 12, 2011 @ 4:02 am | delete

The amount of research and information you put into this page dedicated to Claude Monet is simply amazing! I really love Monet's art...

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Close2Art Aug 6, 2011 @ 4:02 pm | delete

thanks for sharing...RWJR

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GonnaFly Apr 8, 2011 @ 6:29 am | delete

My word. What a fabulous, huge resource!!

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carina Feb 25, 2011 @ 5:38 am | delete

It was a wonderful person

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Rafick Feb 17, 2011 @ 9:51 am | delete

Impressive lens. Should I say impressionist?

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Irenemaria Feb 14, 2011 @ 5:41 am | delete

Monet is in a class by himself! Fill this lens with his paintings! I love them so much you are blessed with angel dust now!

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makingamark Feb 14, 2011 @ 6:09 am | delete

Many thanks for the blessing.

I'm afraid there's a trade off between number of images and speed of loading. I've experimented and this seems to be about the optimum number for a lens of this sort which is also providing lots of links to other reasources

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lravidlearner Feb 3, 2011 @ 2:28 pm | delete

Wonderfully comprehensive view of Monet. I've fallen in love with his art all over again. Blessed by a Squid Angel ~

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ChrisDay Jan 13, 2011 @ 1:32 am | delete

Thanks for sharing your view of this incredible landmark artist. Yes, Giverny was inspiring for us, when we visited a few years back.
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