Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) - The Magpie (La Pie), 1868-69 (Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris) - Monet was a master of the winter scene, he painted more than 100 of them, and when Edouard Manet saw the Impressionist’s snowscapes he abandoned any effort to make his own. This is Monet’s largest…
Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926): Wheatstacks (End of Summer), 1890-91 (Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago) - Claude Monet, the Father of Impressionism, was so charmed in 1890 with haystacks he painted 25 canvases of them! These haystacks are astonishing with the differences in light at various…
Claude Monet (1840-1926): Poppies (1873) Now one of the world's most famous paintings, it conjures up the vibrant atmosphere of a stroll through the fields on a summer's day. Monet diluted the contours and constructed a colourful rhythm with blobs of paint starting from a sprinkling of poppies. The…