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Manner CLAUDE MONET French 1840-1926 Pastel/Paper

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Manner CLAUDE MONET French 1840-1926 Pastel/Paper
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Pastel and tempera on paper. Featuring a blue lily pond. Signed in the manner of Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926) on the lower left corner. 7.1 x 11.4 inches (18 x 29 cm) Claude Monet was a French painter known for his pioneering role in the development of Impressionism. A widely beloved artist of the 20th century, his inimitable style is best remembered through his vivid depictions of his flowering garden in Giverny, France, which today serves as a museum dedicated to his life and work. Monet, along with his peers Edgar Degasand Pierre-Auguste Renoir, were concerned with conveying atmosphere and mood with broken brushstrokes and a close attention to the colors of light and shadow. Some of his best known works include Water Lillies (1919), Impression, Sunrise(1872), and Rouen Cathedral at Sunset (1893). “When you go out to paint try to forget what object you have before you—a tree, a house, a field or whatever,” the artist once descried. “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.” PROVENANCE: Private American collection