BLUE IN GREEN
Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny is one of the most popular once-private gardens in the world. While more than half a million people regularly descend upon this otherwise quiet corner of Normandy, countless more experience the lush natural beauty of his estate from around the world via the hundreds of paintings that he created of it during the last 43 years of his life.
A new exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum in the Netherlands is set to bring together many of the artist’s greatest late canvases from Giverny. Monet – The Garden Paintings will focus upon works produced from 1900 onwards and chart his search for abstraction in his own backyard.
Claude Monet first set eyes on what would be his new home
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