Monet often mixed it with yellow to depict the sunlight seen on the water lilies. Cobalt violets and red lakes were used as striking accents amidst bluish and greenish pigments. All these colors ...

But a paradigm had shifted, and Monet became a magnet for his forward-looking contemporaries. Now, in his garden at Giverny ...

One of Monet’s most unique paintings, La Japonaise is completely different from his usual genre of soft colours, nature, ...

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Home to the impressionist painter Claude Monet for half his life and the inspiration for his most famous works – those depicting colourful water-lilies and the Japanese bridge – the Monet Foundation, ...