Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883) - In the Garden of the Villa Bellevue, 1880 (Oil on canvas. Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zürich) - In the most impressive Impressionist manner, the portrayal of the house, foliage, and the figure reading a book appears in a glittering juxtaposition of fleeting…
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…