Monet, Lavacourt under Snow
Claude Monet, ‘Lavacourt under snow’ is a mature work showing a refined and simplified technique compared to the older works.
Claude Monet, ‘Lavacourt under snow’ is a mature work showing a refined and simplified technique compared to the older works.
Monet, ‘The Gare Saint-Lazare’ is one of twelve paintings with the same subject. The rather special painting technique is described in the following text.
Claude Monet, The Beach at Trouville is one of the series of beach scenes showing his first wife Camille and painted in rather subdued colors.
The Petit Bras of the Seine at Argenteuil is painted with mixtures of bright pigments having a much duller appearance than the pure pigments themselves.
The large painting on luminous ground was painted with thick brush strokes. Monet’s palette is characteristic of this late period and contains pigments such as cobalt blue, cobalt violet, viridian, cadmium yellow and cadmium orange.
The very large painting is one of the many variations of the water-lily pond theme where Monet mostly employed single pigments.
Bathing at La Grenouillère is a seminal work by C. Monet constituting a turning point in his development of a spontaneous painting technique ‘en plein air’.