Book DescriptionClaude Monet (1840-1926) was one of the first artists to move his studio out into the open air, creating works which continue to fascinate and inspire us today as much as they did his contemporaries One of the founding fathers of Impressionist art, Monet's works consistently reflect the artist's profound love of nature Many of his овврг paintings were directly inspired by the gardens that played such an important role in his life--the garden at his house in Sèvres in the 1860s, those at his two homes in Argenteuil in the 1870s, followed by a garden at his estate in Vétheuil Yet the most famous of Monet's gardens was the expansive park in Giverny, which inspired his masterful handling of light and color for more than thirty years and provided motifs for hundreds of individual paintings and series that remain immensely popular today--among them the masterpieces of his Water-Lilies series This magnificent volume of full-page color plates is devoted to this central theme in thework of the French artist It presents landscapes, still lifes, and portraits of people in natural settings from nearly all of Monet's creative periods--from his early Impressionist paintings of the 1870s to the Grandes Décorations of the early 1900s Also included are photographs of Monet's gardens, diagramatic recreations of these spaces (based on the artist's paintings), several bills of delivery and planting instructions from horticulturalists I work constantly and lovingly on my garden What I need most are flowers, always, always My heart is always in Giverny --Claude Monet Essays by Christophe Becker, Catherine Hug, Monika Leonhardt, and Linda Schädler Clothbound, 9 x 11 in /208 pgs / 147 color and 100 b&w.  В рацион2005 г 207 стр ISBN 3775714391.