In the evenings, Monet crossed the river to paint the Houses of Parliament, dissolving the ornate Gothic buildings into ghostly twilit melodramas. For an artist whose work turned on pursuing ...
When most think of Monet, their mind brings forth sunsets on the Seine or water lilies from his beloved flower garden in Giverny in northern France. Sooty scenes of industrial London may be a less ...
And to return the compliment, Monet himself was highly ambivalent ... by which time he was one of the most famous artists in the world. He was haunted by his initial visit to London, and the ...
According to the 19th-century French painter Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, his fellow artist, was “only an eye – but my god, what an eye!” Visiting this outstanding exhibition of 21 views by ...