Monet: The Early Years
Regular price £40.00'Among numerous Monet exhibitions and accompanying catalogues, Monet: The Early Years surprises and illuminates. It offers a fresh, coherent reassessment of Monet’s early career.' - Choice
An elegant volume exploring the early career of Claude Monet
The book brings together the best known paintings from his early career-including his first Salon-exhibited work, the Kimbell Art Museum's La Pointe de la Heve at Low Tide; Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) and The Magpie from the Musee d'Orsay; and The Green Wave and La Grenouillere from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It also features essays by distinguished scholars, focusing on the evolution of Monet's own distinctive mode of painting. Through the 1860s, the young painter absorbed and transformed a variety of influences, from the lessons of the Barbizon school and his mentor Boudin to the challenges posed by his friends Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley. Artistic innovation and personal ambition shaped the work of the celebrated impressionist painter from the very start of his long and illustrious career.
Details
- Author: George T. M Shackelford, Deputy Director, Kimbell Art Museum
- Hardcover: 320 pages | 180 colour and 10 black and white illustrations
- Date published: November 2016
- Language: English
- Delivery: Allow 1-2 weeks
- ISBN: 978-0300221855
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 24.1 cm
