Monet at the end of his life painted works of ravishing beauty whose technical and descriptive freedom constitutes a late style distinct from that of his earlier years. The distinguishing characteristics of Monet's late work are long, sinuous brushstrokes--often of unmodulated color--which are ...
frequented theAtelier Suissewhere he probably met Pissarro who was then working in the style of Corot. After his son's two years of military service (1861-3, spent in Algeria), as a condition of allowing him to devote his life to art, Adolphe Monet insisted that he enter the studio of...
Monet created this garden in part to be a subject for painting. As John Rewald has noted: The colors of the floating lines, the sprouts of the bamboo, the undulations of the willow branches were his to determine, so that they could present him with the pictorial elements he desired. Indee...
The present picture was first exhibited in the rooms of the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1883, with about sixty other landscapes by the artist. In his review of this exhibition, Philippe Burty also noticed Monet's change of style. He wrote: "[These works] stem from a more agitated, aesthetic ...