Claude Monet

Paris 1840 - Giverny 1926

“When you go out to paint, try to forget what object you have before you, a tree, a house, a field or whatever. Merely think, here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow, and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives your own naïve impression of the scene before you”

Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, 1865-6, Orsay, Paris	Femmes au jardin, Orsay, Paris	View of Ventimiglia, 1884, Kelvingrove, Glasgow	Eglise d Vernon, brovillard, 1894, Rosengart Collection Lucerne

SOURCES

1.  Fauvism, Sarah Whitfield, Thames and Hudson, 1991.