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The Monet was then purchased at auction by a Nazi art dealer and disappeared in 1941. More than 70 years later, the painting resurfaced at a 2016 impressionism exhibition in France.
The gallery post carried a picture of the painting, apparently a 1908 work from Claude Monet’s Nymphéas series depicting the famous water lilies in his garden at Giverny, France, along with the ...
The painting was listed on Amazon.com for sale at USD$1.45 million as part of its "fine art" initiative in August 2013. [2] [3] Economist Tyler Cowen criticized the Amazon for its initiative saying it "looks like dealers trying to unload unwanted, hard to sell inventory" referring to the many cheap lithographs (a kind of copies) offered at the platform at that time, in stark contrast to this ...
Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. [3] He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet (1800–1871) and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet (1805–1857), both of them second-generation Parisians.
List of paintings created during 1858–1871 1872–1878 1878–1881 1881–1883 1884 1884–1888 1888 1888–1898 1899–1904 1900–1926 This is a list of works by Claude Monet (1840–1926), including all the extant finished paintings but excluding the Water Lilies, which can be found here, and preparatory black and white sketches. Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and ...
The Poppy Field near Argenteuil (French: Coquelicots) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, completed in 1873. Following its donation to the French state in 1906 by Étienne Moreau-Nélaton , it was housed successively in the Louvre , Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Jeu de Paume .
Claude Monet and his family fled to London to avoid the Franco-Prussian War. At its end, he returned to France, but took a detour via Zaandam in the Netherlands on the recommendation of Charles-François Daubigny , spending five months there and producing about 20 paintings of the flat landscape thereabouts.
In 2018, the National Gallery in London exhibited nine of the Venice paintings, including three paintings of the series, together in a single room, for the duration of a temporary exhibition titled Monet & Architecture, devoted to Claude Monet's use of architecture as a means to structure and enliven his art. This was a rare occurrence because ...