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Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions of nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term…
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culture · French painter (1840–1926) · painter · graphic artist · also Claude Monet, Monet, Klod Mone, Claude-Oscar Monet, Cl. Monet, Oscar Claude Monet
Born 14 November 1840 · Died 5 December 1926 · Q296
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2026· 25 entries
CanvasRebel Magazine: Meet Margarita Monet
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Artsy: Claude Monet | Antibes: Light, Sea & Impression
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Smithsonian Magazine: Claude Monet’s Long-Hidden ‘Iris’ Is About to Become the Most Expensive Painting Ever Auctioned in France
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Tucson Foodie: Monet Cake Painting Workshop
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jckonline.com: Leto Lama’s Precious Garden Ring Inspired by Monet
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Air Mail: "From Monet to Picasso: Jewish Art Collectors in Germany" at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg: Arts Intel Report
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Lucia Se Casa: La isla francesa que enamoró a Monet y que pocos españoles conocen
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20Minutos: Sale a subasta la colección Schlumberger, de 40 millones de dólares, que incluye un inédito Monet
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Associated Press: Monet masterpiece could sell for record €30 million
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WWD: EXCLUSIVE: Bonpoint Teams With MoMA on Capsule Collection Inspired by Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’
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Finestre sull'Arte: Monet, Painting Time: A Major Exhibition in Paris Marking the Centennial of His Death
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Texomashomepage.com: The Everyday Monet announces hello fall painting night
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Radio 3 Cadena Patagonia: Dos Monet inéditos serán subastados en París
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Наша Ніва: Monet's painting, unknown to the public, to be exhibited for the first time at auction. A record price is exp
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InDaily South Australia: Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition
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Reto Diario: Iris, de Claude Monet, podría marcar un récord en una subasta de arte en Francia
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ISKCON News: Ananda Monet – Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya (Official Music Video)
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Marketing4eCommerce México: Subastan cuadro de Monet: cómo funciona el comercio del arte
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Mansion Global: Monet’s Long-Hidden ‘Iris’ Could Become The Most Expensive Painting Ever Sold in France
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El Heraldo de San Luis Potosí.: SUBASTARÁN ‘IRIS’ DE CLAUDE MONET CON ESTIMACIÓN DE HASTA 30 MILLONES DE EUROS
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Межа. Новини України.: Monet’s Never-Seen Irises Will Go to Auction in Paris and Could Set a French Art Market Record
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Yahoo Lifestyle Singapore: This Monet ‘Iris’ Painting Could Fetch $34 Million at Auction
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ANSA Latina: De Monet a Kandisky, la transformación de la pintura europea
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The Guardian: Colours of Time review – Monet meets Mamma Mia in charming French artist comedy
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2022· 1 entry
Monet asks Colle to be patient regarding arrangements to visit his studio in Giverny, and closes with an admonition to avoid using the term:
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2016· 1 entry
And was restored to the Parlagis' granddaughters in 2024
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2014· 1 entry
During the spectacular discovery of a hidden trove of art in Munich, a Monet that had belonged to a Jewish retail magnate was found in the suitcase of Cornelius Gurlitt, the son of one of Adolf Hitler's official dealers
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2007· 1 entry
“(In: José Paulo Paes, sel. e trad. Ri melhor quem ri primeiro - poemas para crianças (e adultos inteligentes). São Paulo: Companhia das letras, 2007. p. 22; Argan, Giulio Carlo. Arte Moderna. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1993 ISBN 9788502194304.”
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2006· 1 entry
The journal Proceedings of the Royal Society published a paper providing evidence that these were painted in situ at St
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2004· 4 entries
“in a letter to Frédéric Bazille; as quoted in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 31.”
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London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog (Londres, le Parlement, trouée de soleil dans le brouillard; 1904), sold for US$20
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“in a letter to Frédéric Bazille: as cited by K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 22”
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“in his letter from Dieppe; as quoted in: Howard F. Isham (2004) Image of the Sea: Oceanic Consciousness in the Romantic Century. p. 336 : About his 1880s travels”
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1998· 1 entry
(in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years and two months, along with two accomplices) and again in August 2007
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1994· 1 entry
“Smith, Paul (1994). Impressionism: Beneath the surface. Nova Iorque: H.N. Abrams. p. 8. ISBN 0-81092715-2.”
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1993· 1 entry
“Argan, Giulio Carlo. Arte Moderna. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1993 ISBN 9788502194304.”
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1981· 1 entry
Ronald Pickvance noted that Monet's works after 1880 were increasingly receiving scholarly attention
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1978· 2 entries
“in a letter to Paul Durand-Ruel: as quoted in: Daniel Wildensteijn "Monet's Giveny" in: Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, (1978) p. 16: About the countryside in Giverny”
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Monet's garden in Giverny—which had grown decrepit over 50 years—was restored and opened to the public
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1926· 13 entries
Died 1926-12-05.
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“Claude Monet es el artista que, desde Corot, ha aportado más invención y originalidad a la pintura del paisaje.”
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“Podniosą może trochę krzyku nieprzyjaciele błękitu i różu, gdyż to właśnie jest ten blask, ta feeria świetlna, którą usiłuję oddać, ci zaś, co nie widzieli tego kraju [Włoch], okrzykną to – jestem pewien – za nieprawdopodobne, chociaż ja jeszcze nie dałem tej prawdziwej siły właściwego tonu: wszystko jest tam jak gardło gołębia i jak płomień ponczu.”
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“Renoir przynosi nam od siebie chleb, żebyśmy nie głodowali. Od ośmiu dni ani chleba, ani ognia na kuchni, ani światła – to okropne.”
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“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.”
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“One day Eugène Boudin said to me, '..appreciate the sea, the light, the blue sky'. I took his advice and together we went on long outings during which I painted constantly from nature. This was how I came to understand nature and learned to love it passionately.”
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“Ho dipinto cose impossibili a vedersi, ma si diventa pazzi a fare cose simili.”
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“Ho iniziato cose impossibili da farsi: acqua con erbe ondeggianti nel fondo, uno spettacolo meraviglioso, ma da rendere pazzi a volerlo riprendere.”
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“Inseguo un sogno, voglio l'impossibile. Gli altri pittori dipingono un ponte, una casa, un battello. Dipingono il ponte, la casa, il battello e hanno finito. Io voglio dipingere l'aria nella quale si trovano il ponte, la casa, il battello. La bellezza dell'aria in cui sono, e questo non è altro che l'impossibile.”
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“Impressão - Eu tinha certeza disso. Eu estava apenas dizendo a mim mesmo que, desde que eu estava impressionado, tinha que haver alguma impressão nele... e que liberdade, que facilidade de fabricação! Papel de parede em seu estado embrionário é mais acabado do que aquela paisagem marinha.”
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“Todos os dias eu descubro mais e mais coisas bonitas. É o suficiente para enlouquecer. Eu tenho tal desejo para fazer tudo,”
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“[...] noi dipingiamo come l'uccello canta.”
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“minha cabeça está estourando com ele.”
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1923· 1 entry
Monet returned to his style from before a decade ago
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1922· 1 entry
A prescription of mydriatics provided short-lived relief
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1919· 1 entry
Monet began a series of landscape paintings, "in full force" although he was not pleased with the outcome
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1915· 1 entry
Exhibited works with Durand-Ruel at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, although he did not visit the United States in his lifetime
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1913· 1 entry
Monet travelled to London to consult the German ophthalmologist Richard Liebreich
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1911· 1 entry
And his oldest son, Jean, who had married Alice's daughter, Blanche, Monet's particular favourite, died in 1914
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1902· 1 entry
Increased the size of his water garden by nearly 4000 square metres; the pond was enlarged in 1901 and 1910 with easels installed all around to allow different perspectives to be captured
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1901· 1 entry
Monet enlarged the pond of his home by buying a meadow located on the other side of the Ru, the local watercourse
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1900· 1 entry
That they required in return that he renounce his artistic career to take over the family business, by the 1920s he had changed this to him having to become a "selon la norme" (normal artist)
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1899· 1 entry
Began painting the water lilies that would occupy him continually for the next 20 years of his life, being his last and "most ambitious" sequence of paintings
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1898· 1 entry
61 paintings were exhibited at the Petit Gallery
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1895· 1 entry
Exhibited 20 paintings of Rouen Cathedral, showcasing the façade in different conditions of light, weather and atmosphere
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1892· 2 entries
Following her husband's death the preceding year—a desire to die
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Produced twenty-six views of Rouen Cathedral
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1890· 1 entry
Monet purchased the house
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1887· 1 entry
And 1889 he displayed a series of paintings of Belle Île to rave reviews by critics
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1886· 1 entry
Monet could only express his utter frustration by writing letters where he accused the dealer of being "only concerned with the United States while we (the Impressionists) are being forgotten in France"
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1884· 3 entries
“Quote in a letter to his art-dealer Durand-Ruel in Paris, 1884; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 51”
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And to the Netherlands in 1886 to paint the tulips
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Paul Durand-Ruel mentions Monet's financial worries, and tells him that both the stockbroker Theodore-Charles Gadala and Georges Clemenceau have purchased paintings
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1883· 3 entries
“Quote in Monet's letter from Etretat to his second [future] wife Alice Hoschedé, 1883; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 51”
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Monet and his family rented a house and gardens in Giverny, which provided him with the domestic stability he had not, up to that time, enjoyed
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The famous architect Charles Garnier wrote a piece in a travel book called Artistic features of Bordighera
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1882· 1 entry
“Quote in a letter from Pourville c. 1882, to his art-dealer Durand-Ruel; as cited in: K.E. Sullivan. Monet: Discovering Art, Brockhampton press, London (2004), p. 50”
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1879· 3 entries
“In a letter to Ernest Hoschedé, May 15, 1879 (W, letter, 158); as cited in: Mary M. Gedo (2013) Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art. p. 123”
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“Quote in Monet's letter, September 1879; as cited in The Private Lives of the Impressionists Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, p. 209”
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“Quote in a letter to George de Bellio, September 1879; as cited in The Private Lives of the Impressionists Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, pp. 202-203; also partly cited in: Jane Kinsman, Michael Pantazzi, National Gallery of Australia. Degas: the uncontested master, National Gallery of Australia, 7 apr. 2009. p. 25”
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1878· 2 entries
Camille was diagnosed with uterine cancer
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After which Camille's health deteriorated further
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1877· 2 entries
“Monet's remark to Renoir (who responded: 'you are mad!') in January 1877; as quoted in The private live of the Impressionists, Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, p. 173”
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A series of paintings at St-Lazare Station had Monet looking at smoke and steam and the way that they affected colour and visibility, being sometimes opaque and sometimes translucent
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1876· 1 entry
Camille Monet became seriously ill
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1875· 1 entry
Monet returned to figure painting with Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, after effectively abandoning it with The Luncheon
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1874· 4 entries
That he was "little attracted by rustic scenes
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Monet displayed, among others, Impression, Sunrise, The Luncheon and Boulevard des Capucines
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At the First Impressionist Exhibition, initiated by Monet and a number of like-minded artists as an alternative to the Salon
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Signed a six-and-a-half year lease and moved into a newly built "rose-colored house with green shutters" in Argenteuil, where he painted fifteen paintings of his garden from a panoramic perspective
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1873· 1 entry
“in a Letter to Paul Alexis, May 1873; as quoted by Sue Roe, The private live of the Impressionists, Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, p. 120”
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1871· 4 entries
Where he, influenced by his time with Dutch painters, mostly painted the Seine's surrounding area
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“in a letter to Camille Pissarro, 17 June 1871; first part cited in: Van Gogh Museum Journal 2001 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 2001. p. 140; second part cited in: Ann Dumas, Denver Art Museum, High Museum of Art (2007), Inspiring Impressionism: : the Impressionists and the art of the past. p. 181”
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“in a letter from Zaandam, The Netherlands, to Camille Pissarro (still in England), 17 June 1871; Cited in: Marianne Alphant (1994), Claude Monet en Holland, p. 87”
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“Quote of 1871, in Monet's letter to Camille Pissarro, 2 June 1871; as cited in Van Gogh Museum Journal 2001 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam 2001. p. 140”
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1869· 1 entry
“quote in a letter to Frédéric Bazille, September 25, 1869; as cited in: Bonafoux (1986, 72), cited in Michael P. Farrell (2003) Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work. p. 42”
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1868· 1 entry
“in a letter to Frédéric Bazille from Etretat, December 1868; as cited in: Mary Tompkins Lewis (2007) Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. p. 83”
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1867· 1 entry
His then-mistress, Camille Doncieux—whom he had met two years earlier as a model for his paintings—gave birth to their first child, Jean
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1865· 1 entry
With La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide and Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur to large praise, he hoped Le déjeuner sur l'herbe would help him break through into the Salon of 1866
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1864· 2 entries
“Quote of Monet, 1864 in a letter to his friend Frédéric Bazille; as cited in Monet's landschappen Vivian Rusell; Icob, Alphen aan de Rijn, The Netherlands 2010, p. 12”
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“2 quotes in Monet's letter to Frédéric Bazille from Honfleur, July 15, 1864; as cited in Mary M. Gedo (2013) Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art. p. 114-15 / p. 60”
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1860· 2 entries
“in a letter to Frédéric Bazille; as cited in: Edward B. Henning, Cleveland Museum of Art. Creativity in art and science, 1860-1960. (1987), p. 95”
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“in a letter to Eugène Boudin, February 10, 1860: As cited in: Angelika Taschen (1999) Monet, p. 24”
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1859· 4 entries
“Quote of Monet, 1859 in a letter to his mentor Eugène Boudin; as cited in: John Rewald (1961) The History of Impressionism - Volume 1. p. 48”
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“1859 letter to Eugène Boudin, June 3, 1859; as cited in Rodolphe Rapetti (1990) Monet, p. 11”
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“Monet wrote Boudin this letter just after he visited the 1859 Salon.”
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“in a letter to Eugène Boudin, 1859; as quoted in Discovering Art, – The life time and work of the World's greatest Artists, MONET; K.E. Sullivan, Brockhamptonpress, London 2004, p. 11”
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1845· 1 entry
His family moved to Le Havre in Normandy
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1840· 1 entry
Born 1840-11-14.
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