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1) Claude Monet
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Introduces the life and work of Claude Monet, discussing his early years, life in London and various parts of France, and development as a painter.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature. Monet himself intended them to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father's nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father's will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the time, he set off for Paris.