Portrait of Claude Monet

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1840-1926

French Impressionist Painter

Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a French impressionist painter.
Monet was born in Paris, but his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy when he was five. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery store business, but Claude Monet wanted to become an artist.
He first became known locally for his charcoal caricatures, which he would sell for ten to twenty francs. On the beaches of Normandy, he met fellow artist Eugene Boudin, who became his mentor and taught him to use oil paints. Boudin taught Monet en plein air (outdoor) techniques for painting.
When Monet travelled to Paris to visit The Louvre, he would see many painters imitating famous artists' work. Monet, having brought his paints and other tools with him, would instead go and sit by a window and paint what he saw.
Monet served in the army in Algeria for two years of a seven-year commitment (1860–1862), but upon his contracting typhoid his aunt Madame Lecadre intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at a university.
Disillusioned with the traditional art taught at universities, instead in 1862 he joined the studio of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Frederic Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, which later came to be known as impressionism, featuring open spaces and light painted with thick brushstrokes.
Monet's 1866 The Woman in the Green Dress (Camille, ou la femme à la robe verte), which brought him recognition, depicted Camille Doncieux. Shortly thereafter Doncieux became pregnant and bore their first child, Jean.
During the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), Monet took refuge in England to avoid the conflict. There he studied the works of John Constable and J. M. W. Turner.
Upon returning to France, in 1872 (or 1873) he painted Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) depicting a Le Havre landscape. It hung in the first impressionist exhibition in 1874 and is now displayed in the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris. From the painting's title, art critic Louis Leroy coined the term "impressionism".
In 1870, Monet and Doncieux married and in 1873 moved into a house in Argenteuil near the Seine River. They had another son, Michel, on March 17, 1878. Madame Monet died of tuberculosis in 1879.
Alice Hoschedé decided to help Monet by bringing up his two children together with her own. They lived in Poissy, which Monet hated. In April 1883 they moved to a house in Giverny, Eure, in Haute-Normandie, where he planted a large garden which he painted for the rest of his life. Monet and Hoschedé married in 1892.
In the 1880s and 1890s, Monet began "series" painting - paintings of one subject in varying light and viewpoints. His first series is of Rouen Cathedral from different points of view and at different times of the day. Twenty views of the cathedral were exhibited at the Durand-Ruel gallery in 1895. He also made a series of paintings of haystacks.
Water Lily Pond (Le bassin aux Nympheas) 1899 Monet was exceptionally fond of painting controlled nature - his own garden, his water lilies, his pond, and his bridge. He also painted up and down the banks of the Seine.
Between 1883 and 1908, Monet travelled to the Mediterranean and painted many beautiful landscapes and seascapes such as Bordighera. Landmarks were another subject for Monet in the Mediterranean. His wife Alice died in 1911 and his son Jean died in 1914. Cataracts formed on his eyes for which he underwent two surgeries in 1923. He died December 5, 1926 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery.
In 2004, London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog (Le Parlement, Effet de Brouillard) (1904), sold for over U.S. $20 million.

795 Claude Monet Paintings

Wind Effect, Sequence of Poplars, 1891 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Wind Effect, Sequence of Poplars 1891

Oil Painting
$558
Canvas Print
$69.20
SKU: MCL-10656
Claude Monet
Original Size: 100 x 73.5 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Water-Lily Pond: Pink Harmony, 1900 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water-Lily Pond: Pink Harmony 1900

Oil Painting
$652
Canvas Print
$68.79
SKU: MCL-10657
Claude Monet
Original Size: 89.5 x 100 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Water-Lily Pond: Green Harmony, 1899 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Water-Lily Pond: Green Harmony 1899

Oil Painting
$646
Canvas Print
$72.68
SKU: MCL-10658
Claude Monet
Original Size: 89 x 93.5 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Vetheuil at Sunset, 1901 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Vetheuil at Sunset 1901

Oil Painting
$623
Canvas Print
$91.70
SKU: MCL-10659
Claude Monet
Original Size: 89 x 92 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Vetheuil, Grey Effect, 1901 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Vetheuil, Grey Effect 1901

Oil Painting
$657
Canvas Print
$90.63
SKU: MCL-10660
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Vetheuil, 1901 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Vetheuil 1901

Oil Painting
$673
Canvas Print
$83.23
SKU: MCL-10661
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

The Water-Lily Pond at Giverny, 1917 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Water-Lily Pond at Giverny 1917

Oil Painting
$586
Canvas Print
$57.81
SKU: MCL-10662
Claude Monet
Original Size: 117 x 83 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Grenoble, France

The Water-Lilies Pond at Giverny, 1917 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Water-Lilies Pond at Giverny 1917

Oil Painting
$686
Canvas Print
$62.07
SKU: MCL-10663
Claude Monet
Original Size: 100 x 200 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France

The Japanese Bridge, c.1918/24 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

The Japanese Bridge c.1918/24

Oil Painting
$686
Canvas Print
$72.40
SKU: MCL-10664
Claude Monet
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Wisteria, c.1917/20 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Wisteria c.1917/20

Oil Painting
$673
Canvas Print
$64.58
SKU: MCL-10665
Claude Monet
Original Size: 100 x 200 cm
Private Collection

Weeping Willow, Giverny, c.1920/22 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Weeping Willow, Giverny c.1920/22

Oil Painting
$656
Canvas Print
$77.99
SKU: MCL-10666
Claude Monet
Original Size: 120 x 100 cm
Private Collection

Weeping Willow, c.1920/22 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Weeping Willow c.1920/22

Oil Painting
$704
Canvas Print
$84.92
SKU: MCL-10667
Claude Monet
Original Size: 110 x 100 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Blue Nympheas (Water-Lilies), c.1916/19 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Blue Nympheas (Water-Lilies) c.1916/19

Oil Painting
$723
Canvas Print
$76.43
SKU: MCL-10668
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 200 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Water Lilies with Weeping Willow Branches, c.1916/19 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Water Lilies with Weeping Willow Branches c.1916/19

Oil Painting
$714
Canvas Print
$83.53
SKU: MCL-10669
Claude Monet
Original Size: 160 x 180 cm
Private Collection

Self Portrait, 1917 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Self Portrait 1917

Oil Painting
$454
Canvas Print
$97.28
SKU: MCL-10670
Claude Monet
Original Size: 70 x 55 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Nympheas (The Two Willows), c.1920/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (The Two Willows) c.1920/26

Oil Painting
$2819
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: MCL-10671
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 1700 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Nympheas (The Two Willows) Part 1, c.1920/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (The Two Willows) Part 1 c.1920/26

Oil Painting
$675
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: MCL-10672
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 425 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Nympheas (The Two Willows) Part 2, c.1920/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (The Two Willows) Part 2 c.1920/26

Oil Painting
$675
Canvas Print
$51.01
SKU: MCL-10673
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 425 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Nympheas (The Two Willows) Part 3, c.1920/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (The Two Willows) Part 3 c.1920/26

Oil Painting
$675
Canvas Print
$51.01
SKU: MCL-10674
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 425 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Nympheas (The Two Willows) Part 4, c.1920/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (The Two Willows) Part 4 c.1920/26

Oil Painting
$675
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: MCL-10675
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 425 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Nympheas (Morning with Weeping Willows), c.1920/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (Morning with Weeping Willows) c.1920/26

Oil Painting
$2888
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: MCL-10676
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 1275 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Nympheas (Clear Morning with Willows), c.1920/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (Clear Morning with Willows) c.1920/26

Oil Painting
$2888
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: MCL-10677
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 1275 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Nympheas (Reflections of Trees), c.1920/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (Reflections of Trees) c.1920/26

Oil Painting
$1749
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: MCL-10678
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 850 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

Nympheas (The Setting Sun), c.1920/26 by Claude Monet | Painting Reproduction

Nympheas (The Setting Sun) c.1920/26

Oil Painting
$789
Canvas Print
$50.44
SKU: MCL-10679
Claude Monet
Original Size: 200 x 600 cm
Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France

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