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Oscar-Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
This site is about Claude Monet - the famous artist and one of the founders of French Impressionist painting. It provides links to where you can:
- find out more about Monet's life
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- read about exhibitions of Monet's paintings
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- get books about Monet's life and work
- read about Monet's home and work at Giverney
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- BOOKS: The Colour of Time
- Claud Monet in Museums and Art Galleries
- Wikipedia article - Impression Sunrise
- Monet and Impressionism
- BOOKS: Monet and Impressionism
- Claud Monet - drawings and paintings online
- BOOKS: Monet and the Impressionists
- Making A Mark - blog posts about Claude Monet
- Wikipedia article - Giverny
- Monet's home and gardens at Giverny
- BOOK: Monet's garden
- BOOKS: Monet and Giverny
- BOOKS: Monet's Landscapes and Nature
- Monet and Series paintings
- Monet Series Paintings - Featured Lenses
- Monet series paintings - Haystacks / Grainstacks
- Monet - Rouen Cathedral Series
- Series - Morning on the Seine
- Monet series paintings - waterlillies
- Monet series paintings - London (Parliament and bridges)
- Monet and Japanese Art
- BOOKS: Monet and Japanese art
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Wikipedia - Claude Monet
Claude Monet () also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926) Biography of Claude Monet giverny.org. Retrieved 6 January 2007. 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.House, John, et al.: Monet in the 20th Century, page 2. Yale University Press, 1998. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.
Oscar Claude Monet - biographical information
- 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: 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 - Fondation Claude Monet - Biography of Claud Monet
- This is a French site with an English translation
- 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. - Artchive - Claude Monet
- Claude Monet images and biography
- Internonet - Monet and Camille : A relationship Biography
- Monet and Camille - A relationship Biography
- Claude Monet Biography - Biography.com
- Learn about the life of Claude Monet at Biography.com. Read Biographies, watch interviews and videos.
- 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?
BOOKS: Catalogues for Major Exhibitions of Monet's work
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Monet in the 20th Century
This book sets Money's challenges and achievements within personal and historical contexts and carefully reconstructs his painting campaigns and strategies. What unfolds is a complicated story of an aging artist determined to create a new art. This book is the catalogue of a Monet exhibition that opened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on September 23, 1998, before opening at the Royal Academy of Arts in London on January 21, 1999.
I've found this book to be essential to understanding the background to and context of Monet's later paintings
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Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings
Paul Hayes Tucker, provides a fresh context for the series paintings. He proposes that they related to contemporary events in France and to Monet's determination to provide active leadership for his nation's artistic production. Tucker looks at the development of his art before the 1890s and the cultural pressures of the 1880s that caused Monet to turn to serial painting.
He focuses on the major and minor series of paintings from the 1890s and examines how they were painted and how they were received.
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Monet's London
"Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames" explores Monet's "London" series of paintings, especially those that immortalized the Thames River.
It explores the socio-cultural context of the time, through the works of Monet's contemporaries: Derain, Coburn, Fenton, Pennell, and Whistler, to name a few.
This is a catalogue for an important exhibition and is also the first publication to thoroughly document and discuss the artistic and cultural context of Modernist London (1859-1914), with particular emphasis on the visual power of the Thames River.
Release Date: 04/15/2005
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Monet in Normandy
This a catalogue of the 2007 exhibition. Monet began his painting career in Nomandy and there met his first great mentor, Eugène Boudin. Monet developed a deep affection for the region and would return time and again to paint its dramatic coastline and seaside villages and resorts.
The catalogue also takes a new look at Monet and examines some of his most important paintings, including the famed Giverny canvases, the iconic haystacks, and the Rouen cathedral series. It also considers some rarely seen works.
The catalogue also puts Monet's work in context with those who came before-Corot, Millet, Courbet, Whistler, and Boudin-and his fellow painters -Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Degas.
Release Date: 06/27/2006
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The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings (Clark Art Institute)
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
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Monet - Exhibitions
Links to various exhibitions which focus on the work of Monet
- 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
- 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 exceptional exhibition focuses on views of the River Thames, the Seine and the city and lagoon of Venice a rare opportunity to see works which were highly controversial in their own day but are now seen as some of the most poetic and evocative images ever produced. - 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)
- 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.
(Slideshow) - 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 :: ArtMagick Exhibition Listings :: artmagick.com
- Museum locations, dates, and info for the exhibition Monet in Normandy. ArtMagick Exhibition Listings.
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
- 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). - 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
- 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.
- Turner to Monet: the triumph of landscape
- National Gallery of Australia
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.
BOOKS: The Colour of Time
Claude Monet: The Color of Time
Winner of the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art
Books about Monet tend to concentrate either on aesthetic or on social aspects of his work without attempting a synthesis. Here Virginia Spate provides a full interpretation of Monet's paintings, examining the various ways in which they can be read; the tension between image and reality that energizes them; and the mysterious interactions between the work, its exhibition, promotion, and sale, and its reception both in public and in private.
Based on a study of the artist's complete oeuvre, his surviving letters, and contemporary documentary material, this is the fullest account available of a complex and influential man whose style changed and evolved considerably during his long career. Monet's often neglected figure paintings, always of family or friends, are analyzed alongside his landscapes, which ranged from river scenes to steam-filled railway stations. Changes in his output in response to shifts in demand are linked to the new system of art dealers and to his financial situation. The France of Monet's youth and maturity is covered in depth, especially the traumatic legacy of the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune; and his famous garden at Giverny is shown to be both a personal utopia and a vital part of his creative processes.
This definitive treatment of a hugely important artist makes an indispensable contribution to the art history of Impressionism and the roots of modernism.
The queue for the Turner Whistler Monet Exhibition in Paris October 2004
Claud Monet in Museums and Art Galleries
- Musee Marmottan, Paris - Claude Monet
- The Museum possesses the world's largest collection of works by Claude Monet.
- 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.
Wikipedia article - Impression Sunrise
Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) is a painting by Claude Monet, for which the Impressionist movement was named.
Dated 1872, but probably created in 1873, its subject is the harbour of Le Havre in France, using very loose brush strokes that suggest rather than delineate it. Monet explained the title later:
It was displayed in 1874 during the first independent art show of the Impressionists (who were not yet known by that name). Critic Louis Leroy, inspired by the painting's name, titled his hostile review of the show in Le Charivari newspaper, "The Exhibition of the Impressionists", thus inadvertently naming the new art movement. He wrote:
The painting was stolen from the Musée Marmottan Monet in 1985 and recovered in 1990. Since 1991 it has been back on display in the museum.
Category: Image - :Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant, 1872 BW.jpg|thumb|200px|Digitally desaturated version of the painting--note how the Sun and its reflection on the water are virtually invisible here
Monet painted the sun as having almost exactly the same luminance as that of the sky, a condition which suggests high humidity and atmospheric attenuation of light. This detail relies on the use of complementary colours and variety of colour temperature, rather than changes in color intensity or contrast of values, to differentiate the sun from the surrounding sky.
Monet and Impressionism
- 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!
BOOKS: Monet and Impressionism
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The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique and the Making of Modernity
This magnificent book is the first full-scale exploration of Impressionist technique. Focusing on the easel-painted work of Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, 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. She analyzes the material constituents of oil painting and the complex processes of "making" entailed in all aspects of artistic production, discussing in particular oil painting methods for landscapists and the impact of plein air light on figure painting, studio practice, and display. Insisting that the meanings of paintings are constituted by and within the cultural matrices that produced them, Callen argues that the real "modernity" of the Impressionist enterprise lies in the painters' material practices. Bold brushwork, unpolished, sketchy surfaces, and bright, "primitive" colors were combined with their subject matter-the effects of light, the individual sensation made visible-to establish the modern as visual.
A really great read - and you can read my review of this book on my blog - The Art of Impressionism and associated painting techniques
Turner, Whistler, Monet: Impressionist Visions
J.M.W. Turner, James McNeill Whistler, and Claude Monet created some of the most poetic landscapes of the 19th century. This book is the catalogue for a accompanies a major exhibition. It follows the three artists from the Thames to the Seine to the Venetian lagoon and is the first to explore the relationships among their works. Friends, collaborators, and rivals, Monet and Whistler adopted and built on themes first developed by Turner, including the creation of a series of views of the same landscape under different lighting and climatic conditions. Their attempts to imitate in oil the effects that Turner had achieved in watercolor and pastel transformed their style and would prove to be highly influential.
Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet
This volume presents 80-plus reproductions of paintings and 70 works on paper from the collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Published to accompany the exhibition beginning in December 2002, it reveals the connections between the many developments in French art from the Barbizon school through post-Impressionism. Shackelford (art of Euro
Release Date: 09/02/2002
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY - Impressionism and the French Landscape
Catalogue of the Exhibition. Exhibition itinerary:
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 28-September 16, 1984;
- the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1984-January 6, 1985;
- Galeries nationales d'exposition du grand palais, Paris, February 8-April 22, 1985
Monet's Giverny: An Impressionist Colony
A colorfully illustrated account of Monet's art colony discusses the artistic and social aspects of Giverny and presents some of the work that emerged from it.
Claud Monet - drawings and paintings online
In online websites which are not museums or galleries
- 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.
- WebMuseum: Monet, Claude
- Reviews different periods of Monet's painting career. Includes a significant number of images but is not comprehensive
- 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. - Famous Artists Gallery: Claude Monet
- A painting by Claude Monet: Irises in the Artist's Garden at Giverny - 1900
BOOKS: Monet and the Impressionists
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The Private Lives of the Impressionists
This book provides a backdrop to the development of Monet as an artist and his career as a painter. It provides a huge amount of information about the group of painters known as the Impressionists in a very accessible way. Monet as a leading light amongst the Impressionists is a prominent figure in the book.
It's scholarly and knowledgeable but a light read at the same time.
My copy is a paperback and it includes some colour plates. The cover on my copy is different to this one so look for the title rather than the cover.
Release Date: 10/31/2006
Making A Mark - blog posts about Claude Monet
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.
- 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.
- "Impressionists by the Sea" at the Royal Academy
- This exhibition includes work by Monet
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- Monet's series paintings - Rouen cathedral
- An account of Monet's series paintings of Rouen Cathedral
- 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.
Wikipedia article - Giverny
Giverny () is a commune of the Eure department in northern France. It is best known as the location of Claude Monet's garden and home.
Monet's home and gardens at Giverny
- 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
BOOK: Monet's garden
Monet's Garden in Art
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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.
BOOKS: Monet and Giverny
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BOOKS: Monet's Landscapes and Nature
Monet's Landscapes
Monet's Landscapes gives an insight into this leading impressionist painter of nature. An evocative combination of paintings, photography and biography with extracts from Monet's letters - many of which are published in English for the first time.
Vivien Russell is the Daily Telegraph's gardening correspondent
Monet: Nature into Art
John House's introduction to Monet's life and work presents a sequence of dazzling illustrations that chart the artist's progress as he became increasingly preoccupied with color and atmospheric effect, and the direct studies of nature gave way to paintings of greater richness and harmony, in which the play of varied colors replaced the conventional drawing and modeling of forms.
Monet and Series paintings
His most celebrated series are
- the haystacks (1891)
- the poplars (1892) and
- the facades of Rouen Cathedral (1892-1894).
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: 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 - Featured Lenses
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Monet's Series Paintings - Stacks of Wheat
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Monet's first set of paintings completed as a series were devoted to stacks of wheat in the field next to his home at Giverny. Find out more about Monet's grain stacks series (sometimes called haystacks) - including links to where you can see them in...
Monet series paintings - Haystacks / Grainstacks
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
Monet - Rouen Cathedral 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.
Series - Morning on the Seine
- The Art Institute of Chicago - Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)
- Claude Monet
French, 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
Monet series paintings - waterlillies
- 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 %uFFFD18 million - 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 series paintings - London (Parliament and bridges)
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 and Japanese Art
- 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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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.
Claude Monet at Auction
notes on works at auction and prices paid
- 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.
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.
Claude Monet - fan sites
- Claude MONET - an overview
- A fan site. Claude Monet's biography and paintings. Visit of his house and his watergarden in Giverny with its Japanese bridge over the waterlily pond. Claude Monet in museum collections and past and today exhibitions.
Blogging about Claude Monet
- 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...
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This is an excellent resource. We have been studying Monet as part of a homeschool project. We were lucky enough to be able to visit the National Gallery and my children were very excited to see some of his original paintings.
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This is a wonderful resource, thank you. I love the Impressionists!
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Taneisha Stotler wrote
I love monets work. It inspires me to paint even.
And all the beautiful colors that are in his
paintings, I had no clue someond could paint
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