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The Fondation Claude Monet was created in 1980 as the estate was declared public. It soon became very successful, and now welcomes both French and international visitors from April to November. When Gérald Van der Kemp died in 2001, Florence became the curator of the Fondation Monet and continued renovating the property until her death in 2008.
The house became a popular tourist attraction (the Claude Monet Foundation), particularly in the summer when the flowers are in bloom. The other main attraction of the village is the Museum of Impressionism Giverny, dedicated to the history of impressionism and its continuation in the Giverny art colony and along the valley of the River Seine.
The Artist's Garden at Giverny (French: Le Jardin de l'artiste à Giverny) is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet done in 1900, now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.. It is one of many works by the artist of his garden at Giverny over the last thirty years of his life.
Boating on the River Epte (also known as The Canoe on the Epte) is an 1890 oil painting by French impressionist artist Claude Monet. It is currently housed at the São Paulo Museum of Art. Between 1887 and 1890 Monet concerned himself with portraying scenes from the River Epte, which skirted his property at Giverny.
Monet settled in Giverny in 1883. Most of his paintings from 1883 until his death 40 years later were of scenes within 3 kilometres (2 mi) of his home and gardens.Monet was intensely aware of and fascinated by the visual nuances of the region's landscape and by the endless variations in the days and in the seasons—the stacks were just outside his door.
Monet felt Venice was a city "too beautiful to be painted", [8] which may be why he returned with many paintings unfinished to Giverny, his home in France. [9] However, he had already retreated from his earlier practice of painting from life, in front of the subject.
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