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Oscar-Claude Monet (/mone/; French: [klod mn]; 14 November 1840 5
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December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most
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painting.[1][2] The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting
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Wikidata item Contents 14 November 1840
Paris, France
Cite this page 1 Biography
Died 5 December 1926 (aged 86)
1.1 Birth and childhood
Print/export Giverny, France
1.2 Paris and Algeria
Create a book Nationality French
1.3 Impressionism
Download as PDF Known for Painter
1.4 Franco-Prussian War and Argenteuil
Printable version Notable work Impression, Sunrise
1.5 Impressionism
Rouen Cathedral series
In other projects 1.6 Death of Camille
London Parliament series
Wikimedia Commons 1.7 Vtheuil Water Lilies
Wikiquote 2 Giverny Haystacks
Wikisource 2.1 Monet's house and garden Poplars
3 Last years Movement Impressionism
Languages 3.1 Failing sight
Afrikaans Patron(s) Gustave Caillebotte, Ernest
3.2 Death
Hosched, Georges
Alemannisch 4 Monet's methods Clemenceau
5 Fame

6 See also
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7 References
Aymar aru 8 Further reading
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() Birth and childhood

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.[5] He was
the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubre Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20
Bosanski May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him
Brezhoneg simply Oscar.[5][6] (He signed his juvenilia "O. Monet".) Despite being baptized Catholic, Monet later became an atheist.[7][8]
Catal
etina In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family's ship-chandling and grocery
Chavacano de business,[9] but Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer, and supported Monet's desire for a career in
Zamboanga
art.[10]
Cymraeg
Dansk On 1 April 1851, Monet entered Le Havre secondary school of the arts. Locals knew him well for his charcoal caricatures,
Deutsch which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. Monet also undertook his first drawing lessons from Jacques-Franois Ochard, a
Eesti former student of Jacques-Louis David. On the beaches of Normandy around 1856 he met fellow artist Eugne Boudin, who

became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet "en plein air" (outdoor) techniques for painting.[11]
Espaol
Esperanto Both received the influence of Johan Barthold Jongkind.
Euskara
On 28 January 1857, his mother died. At the age of sixteen, he left school and went to live with his widowed, childless aunt,

Franais Marie-Jeanne Lecadre.

Frysk
Gaeilge Paris and Algeria
Galego When Monet traveled to Paris to visit the Louvre, he witnessed painters copying from the

old masters. Having brought his paints and other tools with him, he would instead go and

sit by a window and paint what he saw.[12] Monet was in Paris for several years and met
other young painters, including douard Manet and others who would become friends and
Hrvatski fellow Impressionists.
Ido
After drawing a low ballot number in March 1861, Monet was drafted into the First

Bahasa Indonesia Regiment of African Light Cavalry (Chasseurs d'Afrique) in Algeria for a seven-year period
slenska of military service. His prosperous father could have purchased Monet's exemption from
Italiano conscription but declined to do so when his son refused to give up painting. While in
Algeria Monet did only a few sketches of casbah scenes, a single landscape, and several
Basa Jawa portraits of officers, all of which have been lost. In a Le Temps interview of 1900 however
Kalaallisut
he commented that the light and vivid colours of North Africa "contained the germ of my
future researches".[13] After about a year of garrison duty in Algiers, Monet contracted
The Woman in the Green Dress,
Ladino Camille Doncieux, 1866, Kunsthalle typhoid fever and briefly went absent without leave. Following convalescence, Monet's
Latina Bremen aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete a course at an art
Latvieu school. It is possible that the Dutch painter Johan Barthold Jongkind, whom Monet knew,
Ltzebuergesch may have prompted his aunt on this matter.
Lietuvi
Limburgs Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at art schools, in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he
Livvinkarjala met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frdric Bazille and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the
Magyar effects of light en plein air with broken colour and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.

Malagasy In January 1865 Monet was working on a version of Le djeuner sur l'herbe, aiming to
present it for hanging at the Salon, which had rejected Manet's Le djeuner sur l'herbe
two years earlier.[15] Monet's painting was very large and could not be completed in
Bahasa Melayu time. (It was later cut up, with parts now in different galleries.) Monet submitted instead
Mirands a painting of Camille or The Woman in the Green Dress (La femme la robe verte),
Nederlands one of many works using his future wife, Camille Doncieux, as his model. Both this

painting and a small landscape were hung.[15] The following year Monet used Camille

for his model in Women in the Garden, and On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt in
Norsk
Norsk nynorsk 1868. Camille became pregnant and gave birth to their first child, Jean, in 1867.[16]
Nouormand Monet and Camille married on 28 June 1870, just before the outbreak of the Franco-
Occitan Prussian War,[17] and, after their excursion to London and Zaandam, they moved to
Ozbekcha/ Argenteuil, in December 1871. During this time Monet painted various works of modern
life. He and Camille lived in poverty for most of this period. Following the successful Le djeuner sur l'herbe (right
Pangasinan
exhibition of some maritime paintings, and the winning of a silver medal at Le Havre, section), 18651866, with Gustave
Courbet, Frdric Bazille and Camille
Patois Monet's paintings were seized by creditors, from whom they were bought back by a
Doncieux, first wife of the artist, Muse
shipping merchant, Gaudibert, who was also a patron of Boudin.[15]
d'Orsay, Paris[14]
Piemontis
Plattdtsch Impressionism
Polski
From the late 1860s, Monet and other like-minded artists met with rejection
Portugus
Romn from the conservative Acadmie des Beaux-Arts, which held its annual
Runa Simi exhibition at the Salon de Paris. During the latter part of 1873, Monet, Pierre-
Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley organized the Socit
Scots anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs et graveurs (Anonymous Society of
Seeltersk Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers) to exhibit their artworks independently. At
Sicilianu
their first exhibition, held in April 1874, Monet exhibited the work that was to
Simple English
Slovenina give the group its lasting name. He was inspired by the style and subject
Slovenina matter of previous modern painters Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet.[18]
Soomaaliga Impression, Sunrise was painted in 1872, depicting a Le Havre port
/ srpski Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), landscape. From the painting's title the art critic Louis Leroy, in his review,
Srpskohrvatski / 1872; the painting that gave its name to the style
"L'Exposition des Impressionnistes," which appeared in Le Charivari, coined
and artistic movement. Muse Marmottan Monet,
Suomi Paris the term "Impressionism".[19] It was intended as disparagement but the
Svenska Impressionists appropriated the term for themselves.[20][21]
Tagalog
Franco-Prussian War and Argenteuil
/tatara
After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War (19 July 1870), Monet and his family took refuge in England in September
Trke 1870,[22] where he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, both of whose landscapes would
 serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of colour. In the spring of 1871, Monet's works were refused authorisation for
Ting Vit inclusion in the Royal Academy exhibition.[17]
Winaray
In May 1871, he left London to live in Zaandam, in the Netherlands,[17] where he made twenty-five paintings (and the police
Yorb suspected him of revolutionary activities).[23] He also paid a first visit to nearby Amsterdam. In October or November 1871, he
returned to France. From December 1871 to 1878 he lived at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near
emaitka Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best-known works. In 1873, Monet
purchased a small boat equipped to be used as a floating studio.[24] From the boat studio Monet painted landscapes and also
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portraits of douard Manet and his wife; Manet in turn depicted Monet painting aboard the boat, accompanied by Camille, in
1874.[24] In 1874, he briefly returned to Holland.[25]

Impressionism
The first Impressionist exhibition was held in 1874 at 35 boulevard des Capucines, Paris, from 15
April to 15 May. The primary purpose of the participants was not so much to promote a new style,
but to free themselves from the constraints of the Salon de Paris. The exhibition, open to anyone
prepared to pay 60 francs, gave artists the opportunity to show their work without the interference
of a jury.[26][27][28]
Renoir chaired the hanging committee and did most of the work himself, as others members failed
to present themselves.[26][27]
In addition to Impression: Sunrise (pictured above), Monet presented four oil paintings and seven
pastels. Among the paintings he displayed was The Luncheon (1868), which features Camille
Doncieux and Jean Monet, and which had been rejected by the Paris Salon of 1870.[29] Also in this
exhibition was a painting titled Boulevard des Capucines, a painting of the boulevard done from
the photographer Nadar's apartment at no. 35. Monet painted the subject twice, and it is uncertain Madame Monet in a
Japanese kimono, 1875,
which of the two pictures, that now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, or that in the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Fine Arts,
Museum of Art in Kansas City, was the painting that appeared in the groundbreaking 1874 Boston
exhibition, though more recently the Moscow picture has been favoured.[30][31] Altogether, 165
works were exhibited in the exhibition, including 4 oils, 2 pastels and 3 watercolours by Morisot; 6
oils and 1 pastel by Renoir; 10 works by Degas; 5 by Pissarro; 3 by Czanne; and 3 by Guillaumin. Several works were on
loan, including Czanne's Modern Olympia, Morisot's Hide and Seek (owned by Manet) and 2 landscapes by Sisley that had
been purchased by Durand-Ruel.[26][27][28]
The total attendance is estimated at 3500, and some works did sell, though some exhibitors had placed their prices too high.
Pissarro was asking 1000 francs for The Orchard and Monet the same for Impression: Sunrise, neither of which sold. Renoir
failed to obtain the 500 francs he was asking for La Loge, but later sold it for 450 francs to Pre Martin, dealer and supporter
of the group.[26][27][28]
Paintings 18581872

View at Rouelles, Le Havre 1858,
Private collection; an early work
showing the influence of Corot and
Courbet
Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur, Women in the Garden, 18661867,
1865, Norton Simon Foundation, Muse d'Orsay, Paris.[33]
Pasadena, CA; indicates the
influence of Dutch maritime
painting.[32]
 Woman in a Garden, 1867,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg; a study
in the effect of sunlight and shadow
on colour
Garden at Sainte-Adresse ("Jardin
Sainte-Adresse"), 1867,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York.[34]
The Luncheon, 1868, Stdel, which
features Camille Doncieux and Jean
Monet, was rejected by the Paris
Salon of 1870 but included in the
first Impressionists' exhibition in
1874.[35]

La Grenouillre 1869, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York; a small
plein-air painting created with broad
strokes of intense colour.[36]
The Magpie, 18681869. Muse Le port de Trouville (Breakwater at
d'Orsay, Paris; one of Monet's early Trouville, Low Tide), 1870, Museum
attempts at capturing the effect of of Fine Arts, Budapest.[37]
snow on the landscape. See also
Snow at Argenteuil.

La plage de Trouville, 1870, Jean Monet on his hobby horse, Springtime 1872, Walters Art
National Gallery, London. The left 1872, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum
figure may be Camille, on the right New York
possibly the wife of Eugne Boudin,
whose beach scenes influenced
Monet.[38]

Death of Camille
Claude Monet, Camille
Monet on her deathbed,
1879, Muse d'Orsay,
Paris
In 1876, Camille Monet became ill with tuberculosis. Their
second son, Michel, was born on 17 March 1878. This
second child weakened her already fading health. In the
summer of that year, the family moved to the village of
Vtheuil where they shared a house with the family of
Ernest Hosched, a wealthy department store owner and
patron of the arts. In 1878, Camille Monet was diagnosed
with uterine cancer.[39][40][41] She died on 5 September
1879 at the age of thirty-two.[42][43]
Monet made a study in oils of his dead wife. Many years
later, Monet confessed to his friend Georges Clemenceau
that his need to analyse colours was both the joy and
torment of his life. He explained,

I one day found myself looking at my beloved wife's dead face and just Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of
Claude Monet, 1875, Muse d'Orsay
systematically noting the colours according to an automatic reflex!

John Berger describes the work as "a blizzard of white, grey, purplish paint ... a terrible blizzard of loss which will forever efface
her features. In fact there can be very few death-bed paintings which have been so intensely felt or subjectively expressive."[44]

Vtheuil
After several difficult months following the death of Camille, Monet began to create some of his best paintings of the 19th
century. During the early 1880s, Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be
campaigns to document the French countryside. These began to evolve into series of pictures in which he documented the
same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons.
Monet's friend Ernest Hosched became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium. After the death of Camille Monet in September
1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vtheuil, Alice Hosched helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and
Michel. She took them to Paris to live alongside her own six children,[45] Blanche (who married Jean Monet), Germaine,
Suzanne, Marthe, Jean-Pierre, and Jacques. In the spring of 1880, Alice Hosched and all the children left Paris and rejoined
Monet at Vtheuil.[46] In 1881, all of them moved to Poissy, which Monet hated. In April 1883, looking out the window of the little
train between Vernon and Gasny, he discovered Giverny in Normandy.[45][47][48] Monet, Alice Hosched and the children
moved to Vernon, then to the house in Giverny, where he planted a large garden and where he painted for much of the rest of
his life. Following the death of her estranged husband, Monet married Alice Hosched in 1892.[11]
Paintings 18731879

Camille Monet on a Garden Bench, The Artist's house at Argenteuil, Coquelicots, La promenade
1873, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1873, The Art Institute of Chicago (Poppies), 1873, Muse d'Orsay,
New York Paris

Argenteuil, 1874, National Gallery The Studio Boat, 1874, Krller- Woman with a Parasol - Madame
of Art, Washington D.C. Mller Museum, Otterlo, Monet and Her Son, 1875
Netherlands

Flowers on the riverbank at Saint Lazare train station, Paris, Vtheuil in the Fog, 1879, Muse
Argenteuil, 1877, Pola Museum of 1877, The Art Institute of Chicago Marmottan Monet, Paris
Art, Japan

Giverny
Monet's house and garden
Monet rented and eventually purchased a house and gardens in Giverny. At the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his large
family rented the home and 2 acres (0.81 ha) from a local landowner. The house was situated near the main road between the
towns of Vernon and Gasny at Giverny. There was a barn that doubled as a painting studio, orchards and a small garden. The
house was close enough to the local schools for the children to attend, and the surrounding landscape offered many suitable
motifs for Monet's work.
The family worked and built up the gardens, and Monet's fortunes began to change for the better as his dealer, Paul Durand-
Ruel, had increasing success in selling his paintings.[49] By November 1890, Monet was
prosperous enough to buy the house, the surrounding buildings and the land for his
gardens. During the 1890s, Monet built a greenhouse and a second studio, a spacious
building well lit with skylights.
Monet wrote daily instructions to his gardener,
precise designs and layouts for plantings, and
invoices for his floral purchases and his
collection of botany books. As Monet's wealth
grew, his garden evolved. He remained its
architect, even after he hired seven
gardeners.[50]
Monet's Garden 1989 Monet purchased additional land with a water
meadow. In 1893 he began a vast landscaping
project which included lily ponds that would
become the subjects of his best-known works. White water lilies local to France were
planted along with imported cultivars from South America and Egypt, resulting in a Study of a Figure Outdoors: Woman
[51] with a Parasol, facing left, 1886. Muse
range of colours including yellow, blue and white lilies that turned pink with age. In
d'Orsay
1899 he began painting the water lilies, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as
a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that was to occupy him
continuously for the next 20 years of his life. This scenery, with its alternating light and mirror-like reflections, became an
integral part of his work. By the mid-1910s Monet had achieved:

a completely new, fluid, and somewhat audacious style of painting in which the water-lily pond became the point of
departure for an almost abstract art
Gary Tinterow[52][53]

Monet's garden

In the Garden, 1895, Collection E. Agapanthus, between 1914 and The rose arches, Giverny, 1913,
G. Buehrle, Zrich 1926, Museum of Modern Art, New private collection
York

Water Lilies and the Japanese Water Lilies, 1906, Art Institute of Water Lilies, Muse Marmottan
bridge, 189799, Princeton Chicago Monet
University Art Museum

Water Lilies, c. 1915, Neue Water Lilies, c. 1915, Muse

Pinakothek, Munich Marmottan Monet
Last years
Failing sight
Monet's second wife, Alice, died in 1911, and his oldest son Jean, who had married
Alice's daughter Blanche, Monet's particular favourite, died in 1914.[11] After Alice died,
Blanche looked after and cared for Monet. It was during this time that Monet began to
develop the first signs of cataracts.[54]
During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer
Georges Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow
trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers. In 1923, he underwent two operations to
remove his cataracts. The paintings done while the cataracts affected his vision have a
general reddish tone, which is characteristic of the vision of cataract victims. It may also
be that after surgery he was able to see certain ultraviolet wavelengths of light that are
normally excluded by the lens of the eye; this may have had an effect on the colours he
perceived. After his operations he even repainted some of these paintings, with bluer
water lilies than before.[55] Monet, right, in his garden at
Giverny, 1922
Death
Monet died of lung cancer on 5 December 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the
Giverny church cemetery.[47] Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple; thus only
about fifty people attended the ceremony.[56]
His home, garden, and waterlily pond were bequeathed by his son Michel, his only heir,
to the French Academy of Fine Arts (part of the Institut de France) in 1966. Through
the Fondation Claude Monet, the house and gardens were opened for visits in 1980,
following restoration.[57] In addition to souvenirs of Monet and other objects of his life,
the house contains his collection of Japanese woodcut prints. The house and garden,
Monet family grave at Giverny
along with the Museum of Impressionism, are major attractions in Giverny, which hosts
tourists from all over the world.
Monet's late paintings

Water Lilies and Reflections of a Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Weeping Willow, 19181919,
Willow (191619), Muse Willow, 19161919, Sale Christie's Columbus Museum of Art
Marmottan Monet New York, 1998

Weeping Willow, 19181919, House Among the Roses, between The Rose Walk, Giverny, 192022,
Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1917 and 1919, Albertina, Vienna Muse Marmottan Monet
Monet's Weeping Willow paintings
were an homage to the fallen
French soldiers of World War I
 The Japanese Footbridge, 1920 The Garden at Giverny
22, Museum of Modern Art

Monet's methods
Monet has been described as "the driving force behind Impressionism".[58] Crucial to
the art of the Impressionist painters was the understanding of the effects of light on the
local colour of objects, and the effects of the juxtaposition of colours with each other.[59]
Monet's long career as a painter was spent in the pursuit of this aim.
In 1856, his chance meeting with Eugene Boudin, a painter of small beach scenes,
opened his eyes to the possibility of plein-air painting. From that time, with a short
interruption for military service, he dedicated himself to searching for new and
improved methods of painterly expression. To this end, as a young man, he visited the
Paris Salon and familiarised himself with the works of older painters, and made friends
with other young artists.[58] The five years that he spent at Argenteuil, spending much
time on the River Seine in a little floating studio, were formative in his study of the
effects of light and reflections. He began to think in terms of colours and shapes rather
than scenes and objects. He used bright colours in dabs and dashes and squiggles of
paint. Having rejected the academic teachings of Gleyre's studio, he freed himself from
theory, saying "I like to paint as a bird sings."[60]
In 1877 a series of paintings at St-Lazare Station had Monet looking at smoke and
Rouen Cathedral at sunset, 1893,
steam and the way that they affected colour and visibility, being sometimes opaque and Muse Marmottan Monet. An example
sometimes translucent. He was to further use this study in the painting of the effects of of the Rouen Cathedral Series.
mist and rain on the landscape.[61] The study of the effects of atmosphere was to
evolve into a number of series of paintings in which Monet repeatedly painted the same
subject in different lights, at different hours of the day, and through the changes of weather and season. This process began
in the 1880s and continued until the end of his life in 1926.
His first series exhibited as such was of Haystacks, painted from different points of view and at different times of the day.
Fifteen of the paintings were exhibited at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1891. In 1892 he produced what is probably his best-
known series, twenty-six views of Rouen Cathedral.[59] In these paintings Monet broke with painterly traditions by cropping the
subject so that only a portion of the faade is seen on the canvas. The paintings do not focus on the grand Medieval building,
but on the play of light and shade across its surface, transforming the solid masonry.[62]
Other series include Poplars, Mornings on the Seine, and the Water Lilies that were painted on his property at Giverny.
Between 1883 and 1908, Monet traveled to the Mediterranean, where he painted landmarks, landscapes, and seascapes,
including a series of paintings in Venice. In London he painted four series: the Houses of Parliament, London, Charing Cross
Bridge, Waterloo Bridge, and Views of Westminster Bridge. Helen Gardner writes:

"Monet, with a scientific precision, has given us an unparalleled and unexcelled record of the passing of time as
seen in the movement of light over identical forms."[63]

Series of paintings

La Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, Muse Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare The Cliffs at Etretat, 1885, Clark
d'Orsay Saint-Lazare, 1877, The Art Institute, Williamstown
Institute of Chicago[64]
 Sailboats behind the needle at Two paintings from a series of Grainstacks, end of day, Autumn,
Etretat, 1885 grainstacks, 189091: Grainstacks 18901891, Art Institute of Chicago
in the Sunlight, Morning Effect,

Poplars (Autumn), 1891, Poplars at the River Epte, 1891 The Seine Near Giverny, 1897,
Philadelphia Museum of Art Tate Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Morning on the Seine, 1898, Charing Cross Bridge, 1899, Charing Cross Bridge, London,
National Museum of Western Art Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum 18991901, Saint Louis Art
Madrid Museum

Two paintings from a series of The London, Houses of Parliament. The Grand Canal, Venice, 1908,
Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Shining through the Fog, 1904, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
190001, Art Institute of Chicago Muse d'Orsay

Grand Canal, Venice, 1908, Fine

Arts Museums of San Francisco

Fame
In 2004, London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog (Londres, le Parlement, troue de soleil dans le brouillard) (1904),
sold for US$20.1 million.[65] In 2006, the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society published a paper providing evidence that
these were painted in situ at St Thomas' Hospital over the river Thames.[66]
Falaises prs de Dieppe (Cliffs near Dieppe) has been stolen on two separate occasions: once in 1998 (in which the museum's
curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months along with two accomplices) and most recently in
August 2007.[67] It was recovered in June 2008.[68]
Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was
bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $41.4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008. The
previous record for his painting stood at $36.5 million.[69] Just a few weeks later, Le bassin aux nymphas (from the water lilies
series) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 auction in London, lot 19,[70] for 36,500,000 ($71,892,376.34) (hammer price) or
40,921,250 ($80,451,178) with fees, nearly doubling the record for the artist[71] and representing one of the top 20 highest
prices paid for a painting at the time.
In October 2013, Monet's paintings, L'Eglise de Vetheuil and Le Bassin aux Nympheas, became subjects of a legal case in New
York against NY-based Vilma Bautista, one-time aide to Imelda Marcos, wife of dictator Ferdinand Marcos,[72] after she sold Le
Bassin aux Nympheas for $32 million to a Swiss buyer. The said Monet paintings, along with two others, were acquired by
Imelda during her husband's presidency and allegedly bought using the nation's funds. Bautista's lawyer claimed that the aide
sold the painting for Imelda but did not have a chance to give her the money. The Philippine government seeks the return of
the painting.[72] Le Bassin aux Nympheas, also known as Japanese Footbridge over the Water-Lily Pond at Giverny, is part of
Monet's famed Water Lilies series.
Series of water lilies in different lights

Le Bassin Aux Nymphas, 1919. Monet's late Water Lilies, 1919, Metropolitan Museum of
series of Waterlily paintings are among his Art, New York
best-known works.

Water Lilies, 19171919, Honolulu Museum of Water lilies (Yellow Nirwana), 1920, The
Art National Gallery, London, London

Water Lilies, circa 191526, Nelson-Atkins The Water Lily Pond, c. 191719, Albertina,
Museum of Art Vienna

See also
List of works by Claude Monet
Book: Key artists
History of painting
Western painting

References
1. ^ House, John, et al.: Monet in the 20th century, page 2, Yale University Press, 1998.
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Further reading
 Howard, Michael The Treasures of Monet. (Muse Marmottan Monet, Paris, 2007).
Kendall, Richard Monet by Himself, (Macdonald & Co 1989, updated Time Warner Books 2004), ISBN 0-316-72801-2
Monet's years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism . New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1978. ISBN 978-0-8109-1336-3. (full
text PDF available)
Stuckey, Charles F., Monet, a retrospective, Bay Books, (1985) ISBN 0-85835-905-7
Tucker, Paul Hayes, Monet in the '90s. (Museum of Fine Arts in association with Yale University Press, New Haven and London,
1989).
Tucker, Paul Hayes Claude Monet: Life and Art Amilcare Pizzi, Italy 1995 ISBN 0-300-06298-2
Tucker, Paul Hayes, Monet in the 20th century. (Royal Academy of Arts, London, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Yale University
press. 1998).

External links
Claude Monet at the Museum of Modern Art
Wikiquote has quotations
Works by or about Claude Monet at Internet Archive related to: Claude Monet
Claude Monet, Ministre de la culture et de la communication
Claude Monet, Joconde, Portail des collections des muses de France Wikimedia Commons has
media related to Claude
Monet at Giverny Monet.
Union List of Artist Names, Getty Vocabularies
Claude Monet at The Guggenheim
Impressionism: a centenary exhibition , an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online
as PDF), which contains material on Monet (p. 131167)

v t e Claude Monet
Women in the Garden (1866) Garden at Sainte-Adresse (1867) Regatta at Sainte-Adresse (1867)
L'Enfant a la tasse (1868) The Magpie (1868) Bain la Grenouillre (1869) Impression, Sunrise (1872)
Springtime (1872) Boulevard des Capucines (1873) Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat (1874)
Snow at Argenteuil (1875) Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son (1875)
Works Bords de la Seine Argenteuil (1875) Beach in Pourville (1882) Portrait of Pre Paul (1882)
The Cliff Walk at Pourville (1882) Stormy Sea in tretat (1883) Boating on the River Epte (1890)
Le Jardin de l'artiste Giverny (1900) San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk (1908)
The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore (1908) Le Grand Canal (1908)
Le Bassin Aux Nymphas (1919) Water Lilies (1919)
Haystacks (189091) Poplars (1891) Rouen Cathedral (189294) Charing Cross Bridge (18991904)
Painting series
Houses of Parliament (190005) Water Lilies
Camille Doncieux (first wife) Alice Hosched (second wife) Suzanne Hosched (step-daughter)
Blanche Hosched Monet (step-daughter and daughter-in-law) Jean Monet (son b.1867) Michel Monet
People (son b.1878) Theodore Earl Butler (son-in-law who married Monet's
step-daughters, Suzanne and Marthe) Jacques-Franois Ochard (teacher) Eugne Boudin (teacher)
Ernest Hosched (patron) Paul Durand-Ruel (dealer)
Places Monet's home and gardens Muse de l'Orangerie Muse d'Orsay Muse Marmottan Monet

v t e Impressionism
Frdric Bazille Eugne Boudin Gustave Caillebotte Mary Cassatt Paul Czanne Edgar Degas
Originators Armand Guillaumin douard Manet Claude Monet Berthe Morisot Camille Pissarro
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Alfred Sisley
Patrons Gustave Caillebotte Henry O. Havemeyer Ernest Hosched
Dealers Paul Durand-Ruel Georges Petit Ambroise Vollard
William Merritt Chase Frederick Carl Frieseke Childe Hassam Willard Metcalf Lilla Cabot Perry
American artists
Theodore Robinson John Henry Twachtman J. Alden Weir
Henri Beau William Blair Bruce William Brymner Marc-Aurle de Foy Suzor-Cot
Canadian artists
Maurice Galbraith Cullen Helen Galloway McNicoll James Wilson Morrice Robert Wakeham Pilot
Marie Bracquemond Giovanni Battista Ciolina Lovis Corinth Antoine Guillemet Nazmi Ziya Gran
Max Liebermann Laura Muntz Lyall Konstantin Korovin Henry Moret Francisco Oller
Other artists
Wadysaw Podkowiski John Peter Russell Valentin Serov Max Slevogt Joaqun Sorolla
Philip Wilson Steer Eliseu Visconti
Other media Music Literature French Impressionist Cinema
American Impressionism (The Ten) California Impressionism Pennsylvania Impressionism
See also Canadian Impressionism Heidelberg School Amsterdam Impressionism
Decorative Impressionism Post-Impressionism
Related The Impressionists (2006 drama)
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