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French painter Claude Monet 1926 death...
French painter Claude Monet 1926 death...
Item # 725445
December 06, 1926
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 6, 1926
* French painter Claude Monet death
* Founding father of Impressionism
The top of page 23 has a one column heading: "CLAUDE MONET DIES; FAMOUS PAINTER" with subheads. (see images)
Complete with 48 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, irregular along the spine, generally good.
background: Claude Monet is most famously recognized as the founding father of Impressionism, a movement that abandoned the rigid realism of the past to capture the sensory "impression" of a moment. He is known for his revolutionary "En Plein Air" (outdoor) painting technique, where he used short, thick brushstrokes of unblended color to mimic the vibrating quality of natural light. His legacy is perhaps best defined by his series paintings, such as the Haystacks and Rouen Cathedral, where he painted the same subject at different times of day to demonstrate how light and atmosphere can completely redefine an object's appearance. In his final decades at his home in Giverny, he created his most iconic works: the massive Water Lilies series. These paintings, which eventually dissolved physical forms into ethereal reflections of water and sky, are celebrated today as the crucial link between traditional 19th-century art and the birth of modern Abstract Expressionism.
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