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"Steven" traces Monet's life from his childhood, through his rejection of traditional painting and the development of Impressionism, to his final, settled years in Giverny, sprinkling the report with his own drawings and comments. ... Read more

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Great Introduction to Van Gogh
I am using this book and others in the Smart About Art series to introduce a small group of Native American children to the world of art.These books are great: meets many age levels' needs; excellent selection of works; text that appeals to children.And the adults are enjoying them also!

Great little booklet.
Intend to use this book as part of a teacher's lesson plan.Will be very helpful.

And parents learn, too!
"Claude Monet: Sunshine and Waterlilies" was a terrific book for my 7-year-old daughter. Since it is "written" from the perspective of afifth grade student doing a report on the famous artist, the language was clear, concise, and interesting to a child my daughter's age. I learned from it, too! My daughter couldn't wait to break out her paints and try her hand at an "impressionist" painting of her own! For anyone who wants their child to learn about art, this book --and the whole series of "Smart About Art" books--is a great place to start. Your child--and you, too!--will definately enjoy this book.

Poppies or Waterlilies?
This is one in a series of books about artists for young children about the lives and paintings of these famous oldsters.Written as a report by a fictitious student gives a different aspect and will appeal to school children perhaps; and yet, it contains a biography of Claude Monet (the good and the bad) which appeals to adults, but especially his marvelous paintings are worth the money.

He was very handsome when he went to Paris at the age of 18, but the other painters kidded him with the nickname "Dandy" because he wore ruffled cuffs even though he was just the son of a poor grocer.As a young child in the early school years, he would draw stetches of his teachers and sell them to his classmates.The sketch he drew when he was sixteen looks like something you might see in 'The New Yorker' and is now a part of the expressionist grouping at the Art Institute of Chicago.Some years ago, my son Geoff took me there but that part was closed off for renovation.I told him it didn't matter as there was so much else to look at; as it turns out, the expressionalists are my favorites.Oh well, it was grand just being there.

'The Poppy Field' is one of his most famous, but the people in Knoxville would much prefer 'Water Lilies' because of the purple. By his 83rd birthday, he had finished twenty-two giant paintings of waterlilies. He had his own water gardens as an older man with a bridge (a photo of him standing by with his long white beard); there in his garden at Giverny the flowers were so colorful and plentiful, it could be Longwood Gardens in New Jersey.He and Renoir painted the same scene of a group of party-goers along a frog pond and the canoes pulled up for their use.Renoir's is a close-up though he has one of his trees with long hanging branches, while Monet's is more exact and clear.

He was happily married twice but the deaths took their toll; Camille had been his model for ten years before their marriage and he painted many strange pictures after her death with her face in them.When Alice died, he was so distraught he was unable to paint for some years as his eyesight diminished.In 1923, he endured eye operations and had special glasses to use for resuming his career.

Steven ends his report with "On December 5, 1926, he died (shortly after his 87th birthday).He had been happy, sad, poor and rich.In his life, Monet painted more than 2,000 paintings, which now sell for millions of dollars.They are worth it."

Some of the phrasing is for kids to understand, but the book is so full of information not included in adult biographies it is well worth the time and money to purchase this little treasure. ... Read more

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Beloved images from the artist's body of work is paired with his reflections on art, aesthetics, life and society. ... Read more

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You Love Monet, You'll Love This Book!
I bought this lovely book from a bookstore in Subic Bay during my vacation.I enjoy it a lot.The reason I love it is because most of the time, you buy something related to an artist, you hear the writer say about the artist.But this one, you hear what the artist thinks.Plus the works from Monet beside every sentence, this book is really a wisdom of a true artist! As a matter of fact, I'm trying to buy the same series, but it seems not so easy to find.

By the way, there are notes for those words which tell you when Monet said or wrote them. It helps. ... Read more

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This lavishly illustrated book presents the first complete overview of the life, art, and times of the quintessential Impressionist.Tucker, one of our foremost authorities on Monet, offers a striking new view of the artist, showing him to be a far more complicated figure than previously acknowledged, fiercely competitive and ambitious, as well as sensitive and inventive. ... Read more

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Monet
i thought that this was a great book.it was wonderfully written, givingyou a new understanding of the life of a great artist.not only was thebook well writen but it was also full of hundreds of great recreations ofmonets best work.

Excellent!
This book gives a very good over view of his life and work. What he went through to get to where he became well known. This books is well illustrated with work that is not well known and several of his more wellknown work. ... Read more

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A colorfully illustrated account of Monet's art colony discusses the artistic and social aspects of Giverny and presents some of the work that emerged from it. By the author of Art Across America. National ad/promo. ... Read more

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too small
The Dover Fine Art Stickers books are very small: about 6"x4", containing 4 pages of 4 stickers each. The stickers are okay in appearance, but are small, each less than 3"x2", and when peeled away from their backing sheet do not have a great deal of adhesive power.

Nice stickers
I bought these so my order would qualify for free super saver shipping. I gave them to my mom because she still sends cards and letters through snail mail. She loves them.

Very cute stickers
This collection of stickers is a must have if you're a Monet fan.Theyinclude all of his most famous paintings, from water lilies to haystacks;and they can be used for most anything.It's a great set to give to achild who is learning about art, or even those who just like the nicescenery.Under each picture it tells you the name of it, and I especiallylike the fact that for being stickers, they still have so much detail.I'drecommend them to anyone who is a lover of art, or just likes to decoratethings up with a little color.

Very cute stickers
This collection of stickers is a must have if you're a Monet fan.Theyinclude all of his most famous paintings, from water lilies to haystacks;and they can be used for most anything.It's a great set to give to achild who is learning about art, or even those who just like the nicescenery.Under each picture it tells you the name of it, and I especiallylike the fact that for being stickers, they still have so much detail.I'drecommend them to anyone who is a lover of art, or just likes to decoratethings up with a little color. ... Read more

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This volume, one in a series of lavishly illustrated paperback books on major artists and their works, tells the story of Monet. From a look at the artist's life and times, to the historical and social context in which he worked, to an analysis of his masterpieces, this is a vital visual resource with more than 300 superb full-color illustrations. The fact-based text is aimed at the general reader, and makes the series perfect for art-history students and art lovers of all ages. ... Read more

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Monet and his times
This is a highly enjoyable and readable work. It focuses on the work of Monet and provides a wide- range of excellent color reproductions. It also does an outstanding job of presenting the cultural and historical background to Impressionism.
For some reason it does not however tell us about the internal Monet, his thought, his view of the close relationships in his life.
Its strength is its giving a clear and careful illustrated description of Monet's development as an artist. His effort to catch the reality of the moment and to paint the precise colors of the reality he was seeing led to the production of many works of unusual brilliance and originality. Along with Manet, Renoir, Pissarro , Sisley, Morisot he made the world see itself in a more shimmering colorful and bright way.
It is often said that of all movements in Art History it is the work of the Impressionists which are most beloved. Monet was at the center of this revolution in light and color as this fine little volume shows.

Water Lily Heaven
If you are in love with Claude Monet's Water Lily Pond paintings, this is the best book for an explanation as to their origins and where Monet found his inspiration. There is a photograph from 1926 showing the bridge covered with climbing plants.

The Japanese Bridge at Giverny, 1924 is just one of the outstanding paintings in a series of works devoted to the bridge that preoccupied Monet during his final years.

Monet loved his garden at Giverny with such a passion that one could say it bordered on obsession. Harmony in Green, The White Water Lilies, The Water Lily Pond are all explained in detail. There is even a picture of Monet photographed in his beloved garden in 1917.

In every life there is beauty and sadness. The beauty of the water lilies contrasts with the pain Monet felt when he painted Camille on her death bed.

When Monet's wife died, she not only left him without a companion, he then had small children depending on him. He spent most of his meager earnings on his wife's medical treatments and he was also deeply depressed and alone.

This type of revealing information makes him so very human and the paintings then contain a certain depth when these secrets are revealed.

~The Rebecca Review ... Read more

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Young readers will learn how Claude Monet came to paint trains as well as how he forever changed the minds of critics about his art and about the Impressionists in general. When his nine-year-old son raves over trains passing by in the countryside, Monet wishes his own art could excite critics as much as trains captivate his son. The book explains his painting technique, how critics viewed him and the other Impressionists, and how he came to paint trains.

Jos. A. Smith’s beautiful illustrations are paired with P. I. Maltbie’s comprehensive text to create an inspiring tale of Monet. The book also includes an author’s note, reproductions of some of Monet’s paintings, a time line, a list of North American museums that house Monet’s paintings, a bibliography, and an index.

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The Monet beyond the water lilies
The name Claude Monet calls to mind many images -- water lilies, Japanese bridges, dappled light on water. Arguably the most famous of the Impressionists, Monet cultivated his technique at a time when such a style was highly unfashionable; critics considered it unrefined compared to the precise, realistic work popular at that time. But //Claude Monet// focuses on a little-known incident that breathes new vibrancy into Monet's biography.

When Monet's friend, the artist Gustave Caillebotte, invites him to be part of a large exhibition in Paris, Monet decides to find a new subject -- something that will appeal to the masses and lead to healthy sales. Recalling his young son's excitement over trains, Monet negotiates with the director of the Saint-Lazare train station to set up his easel on the train platform -- and even delay the trains' departures so he would have ample time to capture the light. His train paintings are a great success.

With detailed watercolor illustrations that hew closely to life in Monet's day, this book provides a brief, lively introduction to a painter who young readers may already have encountered. It is a welcome opportunity to gain insight into the man behind the water lilies.

Reviewed by Margo Orlando Littell

You Can Hear the Trains Rumbling In...
Anyone who has watched a child play with trains, or stood next to a child as they watched a train approaching and the ground tremble, must read this book.Finally the essence of an artist is portrayed beyond the ability to paint.Claude Monet's passion and motivation to paint is found in his beloved son Jean. As you read Claude Monet, The Painter Who Stopped the Trains, you can imagine a loving father sitting and tenderly watching his son as he delights in playing with his trains. You are reminded there are few moments more tender than a parent's watchful eye and when children entertained themselves without electronics."Claude remembered Jean's excitement and worked to put it in his paintings".After reading this book to a former 5th grader who studied Monet in school last year, she expressed that the series of train paintings were not included in the art program.She did not realize that Monet painted more than garden scenes.Lastly, she was touched by Monet's dedication to his son and wife. Perhaps she will more easily recognize and appreciate the same from her parents after reading Claude Monet by P.I. Maltbie. ... Read more

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Presents three essays and 12 color plates published to accompany a 1998 exhibition at the University of Michigan Museumof Art. The exhibition and text focus on the period of Monet's career which he spent at Vetheuil, a small town along the Seine, from 1878 to 1881. The essays examine: love, money, ... Read more

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Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny. This volume is dedicated to those paintings, and opens with a biography of Monet that links the artist’s childhood passion for nature and for drawing to his later fascination with light. Monet’s experiments with how to best capture light and its effect on the sky and on water at different times of the day include paintings such as Impression, Sunrise (1872), which inspired the name of the impressionist movement. A critical text analyzes Monet’s ingenuity, audacity, and modernity, as well as his influence on other artists, from Zao Wou-ki to music to Shirley Goldfarb. This definitive catalog is completed by 210 color reproductions of the water lily paintings with annotated captions, period shots of Giverny by photographers such as Cartier-Bresson, and rare documents including Monet’s personal letters to his optometrist regarding his failing eyesight, which has been linked to his development of the impressionist style. The large-format volume features an eight-page gatefold of the murals at the Orangerie in Paris, and it serves as both an accessible introductory work and a complete reference guide to an important component in the history of art. ... Read more

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Monet Waterlillies
This is a beautifully illustrated book and full of great information about the Waterlilly series of paintings.A fantastic coffee table book.

Monet: Water Lilies: The Complete Series
THis is a beautiful inspiring book for all artists and lovers of beauty. A must for every library! ... Read more

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A monograph spanning Monet's entire career: from early works completed in the Forest at Fontainebleau, through his mature landscapes and Thames paintings to the near abstract later works at Giverny. ... Read more

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Full of pictures
I just bought this book as a gift for one of my teachers.It is an excellant book.It has great pictures and backgrounds on all of Monet's work.Makes a terrific gift for art lovers. ... Read more

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The first biography of Monet written especially for young readers. This highly readable text traces Monet's life as a young boy in LeHavre, his studies in Paris, and his eventual achievement of international renown in his forties. 53 illustrations, 33 in full color. ... Read more

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Claude Monet
Very informative and enjoyable. I recommend it if your interrested in an introduction of his life. Its also great for young readers. ... Read more

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Sometimes he dreamt he held her; that he would turn in bed and she would be there. But she was gone and he was old. Nearly seventy. Only cool paint met his fingers. “Ma très chère . . .” Darkness started to fall, dimming the paintings. He felt the crumpled letter in his pocket. “I loved you so,” he said. “I never would have had it turn out as it did. You were with all of us when we began, you gave us courage. These gardens at Giverny are for you but I’m old and you’re forever young and will never see them. . . .”
 
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.
 
But once there he is confronted with obstacles: an art world that refused to validate his style, extreme poverty, and a war that led him away from his home and friends. But there were bright spots as well: his deep, enduring friendships with men named Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Manet – a group that together would come to be known as the Impressionists, and that supported each other through the difficult years. But even more illuminating was his lifelong love, Camille Doncieux, a beautiful, upper-class Parisian girl who threw away her privileged life to be by the side of the defiant painter and embrace the lively Bohemian life of their time.
 
His muse, his best friend, his passionate lover, and the mother to his two children, Camille stayed with Monet—and believed in his work—even as they lived in wretched rooms, were sometimes kicked out of those, and often suffered the indignities of destitution. She comforted him during his frequent emotional torments, even when he would leave her for long periods to go off on his own to paint in the countryside.
 
But Camille had her own demons – secrets that  Monet could never penetrate, including one that when eventually revealed would pain him so deeply that he would never fully recover from its impact. For though Camille never once stopped loving the painter with her entire being, she was not immune to the loneliness that often came with being his partner.
 
A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order. ... Read more

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a rare gem of a book
It is a rare book that brings tears to my eyes but the news of Bazille's death did so even though I knew the history in advance. This is because the author submerges the reader in the story and we feel what Claude and Camille feel. It is not easy to bring the past to life and turn dry facts into the reality that these were living people with turbulent lives with unknown outcomes (in their ken), but it has been done with inspired writing.

No one who loves painting should miss reading this book.

The Artist and The Muse
This was a sweet story of love and pain. Many times I have trouble "getting into" the rhythm of a story, especially when an author imagines how two well known people would have interacted. For that reason, I did not like the Frank Lloyd Wright romantic novel that is so popular currently.

The relationship Stephanie Cowell created between Claude and Camille felt very natural and very real, from the very first conversation. I felt like I was there in the room, watching Claude court Camille, watching Camille break away from her family and take the courageous leap it required to leave her luxurious safe life behind for the life of a indigent artist's wife.

Towards the middle of the book,it drags a bit and then it is like the author got her 2nd wind and comes to a dramatic, wrenching finish.

Lastly, I was extremely fortunate in that just as I was finishing the book, I was able to see the Impressionist Exhibit in San Francisco. There was one painting of Monet's his friends at the exhibit, a picture that I understand rarely leaves its home museum, where "everyone" was there - Bazille, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas et al. It was as if I had stepped into the book when I was standing in front of that painting.

I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to a friend or a bookclub.

Claude and Camille
I absolutely loved the book "Claude and Camille".Once I started reading it, I could not put it down.What a wonderful novel of this talented artist and his many struggles to gain recognition for his artwork while trying to maintain his relationship with Cammille, his true love. I would recommend it to anyone, especially if you are a Monet fan.You also get a glimpse into the lives of other great painters such as Boudin, Renoir, Bazille, Pissarro, Glyere, and Manet.I followed the story along with another book I have titled "Monet" by Vanessa Potts that is filled with Monet's paintings.It has the self portrait of Monet and many of his companion Camille.It is a 253 page book of his art work with an accompanying page with a story that narrates each painting.

both enjoyable and frustrating
I first learned about Claude Monet and his fellow Impressionists in my high school French classes, and I was immediately entranced with his work above everyone else's. I didn't learn much about Claude the person vs. Claude the painter and the paintings themselves. So I was eager to read this book, about his life, his muse, his love and his struggles.

Because the book is a novel and Cowell has taken numerous liberties with the truth, it is impossible to know without doing further research on your own what was real and what wasn't in this wonderfully written narrative. And that's what frustrated me about this book: I wanted to know about Claude and how his life and career developed, but I don't feel I have even remotely an accurate picture of that after reading Claude and Camille. Cowell confesses to certain events being false or significantly exaggerated, and I found that to be a real let-down after becoming so absorbed in the story that I couldn't put the book down. So it has inspired me to dig deeper, but I wish in her historical notes she'd clarified more points than she did. In that way, she's done a disservice to the reader who wants to learn more about Monet in an enjoyable way (i.e. instead of reading a dry text), but fans of historical fiction who don't care what's true, as long as the story is compelling and well-written (which it is) will love this book without any further thought given to the matter.

From how she's depicted, Camille was mysterious and complicated, and she inspired, excited and frustrated Claude. The book depicts their relationship essentially as a tug of war, with each fervently devoted to the other while still managing to occasionally push the other away, only to pull each other back passionately. Camille has given up her life of privilege for a life "of adventure" with Claude, only it's more of an adventure than she bargained for, and they both struggle with their poverty and frequent setbacks and physical moves. At some times they seem utterly devoted to each other, but the falsified lapses in devotion call that into question.

While I was intrigued and drawn in by his love story with Camille, it was not nearly as fascinating as his close relationships with fellow struggling artists Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and especially his best friend Frédéric Bazille. These brilliant, talented men were at the beginning of a new art movement they were creating themselves, and their undying support of each other, especially for Claude, is inspiring and beautiful. As Camille supposedly said, "One for all and all for one" -- a sentiment they regularly displayed throughout their early years and well into their careers. My favorite scenes in the book are those in which these young artists randomly gather, sleep, eat and paint in the studio rented by Bazille (one of Claude's greater benefactors, as he comes from money and is willing to share it to help support Claude, who is fighting his father for any kind of support). How incredible it would have been to be a fly on the wall as these men were developing their craft! I had never heard of Bazille but now want to learn more about him as well.

In the end, I found the book very enjoyable...it pulled me in emotionally and intellectually and was very satisfying in that regard. But it left me feeling incomplete and wondering what was actually true, and frustrated that I now need to go do my own homework to learn the real story, as much as what can be learned (there apparently is very little trace of Camille, with no letters from or to her ever found, despite the plethora included in the narrative). I also would have liked to see reproductions of the paintings that are referenced in the book. I have begun to look them up online myself.

Cowell is truly a gifted writer and she really brought the characters and the scenes to life. If you can get past the fiction aspect of it and just enjoy the story, you will love this book!

passion and art
The Impressionists are known as a group of painters who went against the wind, and their use of color and specific techniques was very different from what was considered top-notch art by specialists at in the second half of nineteenth century.
One of the most beloved painters of that group was Claude Monet, whose paintings are recognized even by those who are not too interested in art, and are reproduced in millions of calendars and poster all over the world.

"Claude and Camille" by Stephanie Cowell is a story of young Claude Monet and his love and muse, Camille Doncieux, who appeared in Monet's famous paintings. The author did a lot of research and presented Monet's struggle against poverty and will to live for his art with accuracy. At the same time, she also admitted that there is not much information about his relationship with Camille, and about Camille herself, so the romance part of the novel is highly imaginary.

The novel begins with Claude as an old, lonely man, painting his water lilies at Giverny (apparently he painted 250 pictures of water lilies!), and writing letters to Annette, Camille's sister. Then, the time shifts to the his beginnings as an amateur caricaturist in Le Havre, his travel and studies in Paris with his friends: Renoir, Pissarro, and Bazille, meeting Camille, and their life together, full of secrets and suspicions, but also love and passion.

I liked "Claude and Camille", probably because of the subject matter, which is interesting for me. The language was sometimes strikingly awkward and the prose was not flowing seamlessly, but seemed angular, rough, a little difficult to read. Nevertheless, it was an enjoyable book. ... Read more

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Monet never traveled to Japan, but he surrounded himself with a large collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Like a number of other Parisians, he first collected Japanese prints in the 1860s. He shared the European view of Japanese culture as supremely artistic, shaped by the refined aesthetic tastes of its people, in harmony with its legendary beauty. As early as the 1870s, critics were writing about the influence of Japanese art on Monet's Impression.Monet and Japan shows how Japanese prints and paintings helped to shape Monet's art during six decades, influencing not only his style and subject matter, but the very way he saw the world around him. It includes Japanese prints and paintings that we know Monet saw, or could have seen, or works very like them. The book also contains Monet's paintings of his pays, that part of France which he knew best, where he was born and brought up--the Seine Valley from Le Havre on the Norman coast to Paris. It is in his paintings of the landscapes that he knew intimately that one can best observe how Monet used Japanese art to shape his vision of his world. ... Read more

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Beautiful book
My daughter had a project due, and she was to be Monet. I saw this book on Amazon.com and it said it was Used, well you would not believe it in the least. The pages still creeked when you opened it and the cover and everything about it was just beautiful.
Kuodos to the seller!

Be careful.The editorial reviews are for a different book.
The Editorial reviews for this book are not for the book being sold.They are for a book by Stuckey which has an entirely different ISBN number.Unfortunately, I bought this book based on those reviews.I do not know which book the Customer reviewers were looking at.I suspect the positive reviews are for the Stuckey book and the dismissive review is for the Taschen/Karin Sagner-Duchting book.While I would not be dismissive of this book, it is certainly written only for the general reader and is not the scholarly book described in the editorial reviews.Since that is what I wanted, I am disappointed.

Speaking to the Taschen book.It is fully illustrated, but the reproductions are a little dark and to the brown/orangey side.The text is adequate, but nothing new to anyone who knows Monet.To someone new to the subject it gives an overview of Monet's life and work.

Unfortunately, Amazon does not have an easy way for me to relay this page error to them. I don't want this book, but whose fault is it.I ordered the book that was reviewed.The seller sent the book that was listed.

Amazon's boo-boo. ... Read more

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A look at Monet's late paintings and his garden at Giverny
While Monet is my favorite Impressionist artist, I have little affection for most of the work he did in the last years of his life.However, "Monet: Late Paintings of Giverny from the Musee Marmottan" is about more than the work the artist did during the first part of the 20th-century.What is fascinating about this book is how it talks about Claude Monet as a skilled landscape designer who turned his garden at Giverny into a living canvas which served as the subject for almost all of his later work.

The text of this book consists primarily of four essays: (1) "The Musee Marmottan and Claude Monet," by Arnaud d'Hauterives, the museum's curator, that briefly discusses the history of the Monet collection found there; (2) Lyn Federle Orr's "Monet: An Introduction" provides what is really an overview of Monet's body of work; (3) Paul Hayes Tucker's "Passion and Patriotism in Monet's Late Work" discusses how the artist started focusing on particular elements and enlarging them in his paintings.This essay is illustrated with not only reproductions of Monet's paintings but photographs of Monet's garden from that period; (4) "Monet as a Garden Artist" by Elizabeth Murray focuses on the strong parallels between Monet as a painter and a gardener.The essay includes a detailed diagram of both the Flower Garden and the Water Garden at Monet's home in Giverny, as well as an axial view of the two.What I like most about this book is that I learned more about the garden and its relationship to the famous paintings of the water lilies, the Japanese bridge, and the other familiar sights.

This book ends with the Exhibition of 22 paintings displayed at the Musee Marmottan, from two "Water Lilies (Nympheas)" paintings from 1903 to a painting of "The Roses (Les Roses) from 1925-1926.Almost all of these paintings reflect the darker style of his last years.However, I think with this book you will come for the paintings, but stay for the garden.Of course, now I have a strong desire to go there and see these things for myself.For a visit there, albeit a slightly fictional one, check out "Linnea in Monet's Garden," a children's book that adult will certainly enjoy by Christina Bjork and Lena Anderson.

the emperor's new clothes
the emperor's new clothes!! ... Read more

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This four-volume work contains all of Monet's 2000 pictures, as well as almost 100 rediscovered canvases. The first volume acts as an introduction to Monet's life, and the others present his complete work in chronological, historical and scientific terms. ... Read more

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The Monet collection in color!
You may be wondering if the price is worth it. You may also be afraid that this is the typical catalogue that has mostly black and white images. Thankfully, 90 percent or more is in color, and the illustrations range from 3 x 3 inches or so, on to postcard and notebook paper size. About 25% or so are small images in color, but the first book reproduces many of these in larger format. The rest of the images are mostly 5 x 6 inches or so with quite a few being 8 x 10 inches.

The reproductions are clear and the colors are vibrant. For anyone who loves this artist, it is a great way to see some works that have never been shown otherwise. For those who need it for research it is a must own. Each painting is described and the previous owners listed.

All in all a beautiful 4 volume set that is mostly in color and large coffee table sized. Most of the major works such as his series of poplars, cathedrals and water lilies are reproduced in large size. The first volume is a complete biography filled with large size paintings, providing a better view of over 300 from the catalogue.

A wonderful way to see most of this incredible artist's paintings.

Comprehensive tour du force
A must-have for any student of Monet.Volumne I contains covers his biography proper, while volumes II-IV provide a COMPLETE record of the artist's body of work.

Wilderstein protrays Monet life for the most partas that of a debtor.However to his credit, he tempers the romantic"suffering artist" idealism with insight into Monet the creditor. By illustrating what a jackass the artist could also be, the authorcreates a deep and lively narrative.

Most of the personal insight intoMonet come to us by way of coorespondance with Alice Hoeschede.Due to'appearances' however she requested of Monet her letters be destroyedimmediately and thus we're sadly left with a one-sided portrait of the man. While his artistic talents we're unparalled, it's his devotation tocorrespondance that allows Wildenstein to bring him back to life. Withoutgiving away the ending, it's Monet's inability to write rather than paintthat signals the end.

The Ultimate Collection of Monet Paintings

This is the most comprehensive collection of Monet's Paintings as its name implies.The handsome 4-volume set, published in 1996, comes with 2,580 illustrations in 1,540 pages.

Volume I is a complete biography of the Artist in details, that also contains partial correspondence.
Volumes II-IV catalogue 2,050 paintings, listed in Wildenstein Number in chronological order, with text in French, English, and German.Each entry includes:

1.Technical data ("W" number, title, size (in centimeters), and signature
2.List of Exhibitions
3.Exhaustive Bibliography
4.Provenance, detailing history from its origin
5.Brief commentary

Volume II: W1 (1858) - W968 (1885)
Volume III: W969 (1885) - W1595 (1899-1901)
Volume IV: W1596 (1900) - W1983 (1926), and the Donation to the Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris
Including in Volume IV: Exhaustive Bibliography; List of Expositions from 1858 to 1995; Index of Collectors, Galleries, and Museums; and Analytical Index of the Subjects.

Its previous 5-volume black-and-white edition cost more than US$10,000, and were found only in large museums or major universities' art department.This is the chance for any serious Monet fan to own this monumental work at a highly affordable price! ... Read more

Product Description
This fully illustrated catalogue for Gagosian Gallery’s Claude Monet: Late Work focuses on important and previously unseen drawings from the artist’s gardens at Giverny.An extensive illustrated catalog, it includes a detailed chronology of Monet's life and exhibitions while at Giverny written by leading Monet scholar Charles Stuckey and a compendium of historical reviews compiled by Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. The focus of the exhibition is the most important late subjects drawn from his gardens at Giverny-Nymphéas, Le point japonais, and L'allée de rosiers. Aggressively rendered with broad brushwork and unusual color combinations these late paintings stand in marked contrast to the more refined 1909 works, attesting to the modernity of Monet's expanded vision. These paintings are among the most treasured of the artist's long and prodigious career, several of which were never exhibited during the artist's lifetime. ... Read more