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Claude Monet, artist
French, 1840 - 1926
Water Lilies, circa 1914 - 1917
oil on canvas
65 3/8 x 56 (166.1 x 142.2 cm)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Mildred Anna Williams Collection 1973.3
Artist Credit: all
Artist Biography: Painter, artist. Initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. In mature works, developed method of producing several studies of the same subject in series, changing canvases with the light or as his interest shifted. These "series" were generally dated and were often exhibited in groups. ~~Moved with his family to Le Havre in 1845. He attended public school in Le Havre and learned to draw from Francois-Charles Ochard, although the early instruction he received from Eugene Boudin was more critical. In 1859 Monet traveled to Paris where he attended the Acadbmie Suisse and began a friendship with the older Camille Pissarro. He received formal art training in 1863 in the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met Bazille, Renoir, and Sisley. Despite the acceptance of paintings at the Salons of 1865 and 1866, he suffered severe financial problems. In 1873 Monet and other artists in his circle formed the Societe Anonyme Cooperative d'Artistes-Peintres-SculpteursGraveurs, which in 1874 held its first group show, later known as the first impressionist exhibition. Monet exhibited Impression: Sunrise (Paris, Musee Marmottan), the painting from which the impressionists derived their name. Monet also participated in the second (1876), third (1877), fourth (1879), and seventh (1882) impressionist exhibitions. During his career, Monet painted in a number of locations throughout France as well as in London, Venice, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia. He established studios at Argenteuil (1871), then Vetheuil (1878), and finally Giverny (1883), where he bought a house and property in 1890 and began to concentrate on the famous paintings of his gardens. As Monet grew older, his eyesight deteriorated, but despite his failing vision, he continued to paint until his death. His last years were preoccupied by his grand cycles of water lily paintings, one of which was installed afler his death in the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris.
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