Monet at Giverny (Pegasus Series)

Monet at Giverny (Pegasus Series)

by KarinSagner-Duchting (Author)

Synopsis

In May 1883 the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet settled with his family in Giverny, a small village on the Seine northwest of Paris. There, amidst the romantic garden landscape that Monet himself helped to design - including his own house and studio, greenhouses, ponds, and a Japanese-style bridge - the most fascinating and mature works of his last forty years came into being. In this volume Sagner-Duchting examines three important series that Monet painted in the immediate vicinity of Giverny: the Grain Stacks, the Poplars, and the Early Morning on the Seine series. In addition to providing a fascinating look at the influence of Giverny and its surroundings on his work, the author discusses Monet's innovative "open form, " exemplified by the paintings in his famous Waterlilies series. With these late works, Monet diverged from traditional pictorial ideas and came to be recognized as a pioneer of modern art.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 118
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 01 Feb 1999

ISBN 10: 3791320068
ISBN 13: 9783791320069

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