In 1955 MoMA became the first US museum to acquire one of Monet's paintings of his garden in Giverny. This volume by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, recounts the history of Monet's Water Lilies paintings at the Museum and underscores their resonance with the art of the l[...]
Part of a new series of beautiful gift art books, Claude Monet Masterpieces of Art features all of the popular works of this insightful and experimental artist, from his first inklings as an Impressionist to his later flirtations with Abstract Expressionism. With a fresh and thoughtful introduction [...]
Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. His water garden was originally created to satisfy a need[...]
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and[...]
A gorgeous new edition with the cover printed on silver. Towards the end of his life and much inspired by Japanese water gardens, Monet spent a great deal of time in his beloved Giverny. Adorned with poppies, blue sage, dahlias and irises, the waters were disturbed only by bamboos and water lilies. [...]
Part of the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, which tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. When Julie's dog disappears into a mysterious garden, Julie follows him - and finds herself in a beautiful garden-within-a[...]
Part of the highly-successful Anholt's Artists series about great painters, which tells the stories of real meetings between world-famous artists and the children who knew them. When Julie's dog disappears into a mysterious garden, Julie follows him - and finds herself in a beautiful garden-within-a[...]
The recent exhibitions of Monet's work have centred on his Series paintings and then Water Lilies. David Joel has worked on this period over many years at Vetheuil. Monet lived there for four years and it was there that his first wife Camille, immortalized in over 70 paintings, died of cancer leavin[...]
Claude Monet spent most of his life painting his own spontaneous impressions of nature and the world that was closest to him. His works provoked the description 'Impressionist', the name given to the style of art that he created together with Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.[...]
A founder of French Impressionist painting and the most prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, Claude Monet created a large body of works, developing his own method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in a series, whilst changing[...]
This beautiful slipcased volume offers an intimate tour inside Monet s home and through the idyllic Giverny garden that inspired his most iconic paintings.
Monet first spotted the village of Giverny from the window of a train and then relocated to the rural haven outside Paris in 1883. Monet wa[...]
Claude Monet's garden in Giverny is a place of yearning for many people from all over the world. Sensitive photographs record the different moods during the day and the seasons of the year and invite the viewer to stroll through the floral abundance of the garden, across the bridge by the lily pond [...]
More than any other artist, Claude Monet represents Impressionist painting. This volume illustrates Monet's career from Realism via Impressionism to a form of painting in which the colo urs and light gradually become detached from the object. It focuses on the artist's colour concept, an aspec[...]
Based on the beloved series of water lily paintings by Claude Monet, this children's book draws readers into the atmosphere and colors of Monet's garden at Giverny, where a lovely but vain frog tries to insert herself into the artist's work. When Antoinette, a comely young frog, learns that a famous[...]
In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism. Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. In his long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular land[...]