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9 Interesting Facts About Claude Monet
He ended up painting the image he was obsessed with in Camille on Her Deathbed, an artwork that was never sold or displayed.
'A mesmerising mirage': How Monet's paintings changed the way we see London
A new exhibition charts how Claude Monet's revolutionary, fog-shrouded visions of the Thames would "irreversibly alter how London saw itself".
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Monet Haystacks painting sells for record $110.7m
A painting by Claude Monet has been bought for $110.7m (£85.7m), a new world record for a work by the French artist. Monet completed the oil painting in 1890 as part of his Meules (Haystacks ...
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‘Monet and London: Views of the Thames’ and ‘Frank Auerbach: Portraits of London’ Review: Modern Visions of a Storied City
The most significant and sustained visions of modern London in paint are Claude Monet’s views of the Thames flaming in the fog and Frank Auerbach’s vistas of the fractured postwar city.
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Texture and technique
In his series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral he changed his technique to show different light conditions. Rouen Cathedral, Claude Monet, 1892, oil on canvas (Peter van Evert / Alamy Stock Photo ...
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'A mesmerising mirage': How Monet's paintings changed the way we see London
From a murky miasma of toxic, soot-laced smog that choked the very breath of the Thames, Monet magicked up nearly 100 paintings – more than he would devote to any other subject in his long career.