Claude Monet Prints
1840–1926 · French · Impressionism
The father of Impressionism — Monet's shimmering Water Lilies, painted in the gardens at Giverny. Restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte paper.
48 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Claude Monet
Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840 and grew up in Le Havre, where the painter Eugène Boudin persuaded him to work outdoors directly from nature. In Paris he studied in the studio of Charles Gleyre from 1862, meeting Renoir and Bazille, and over the next decade the group developed the broken brushwork and attention to light that became Impressionism. The movement took its name from Monet's own canvas: Impression, Sunrise, painted in 1872 and shown at the first group exhibition in 1874, where a critic used the title as a jibe. Monet worked along the Seine at Argenteuil and Vétheuil through the 1870s, then in 1883 rented, and later bought, a house at Giverny, where he laid out the water garden that occupied the last twenty-five years of his life. His series paintings of the 1890s, including Haystacks and Rouen Cathedral, tracked a single subject through changing light and weather, and the Water Lilies that followed dissolved the horizon altogether. He died at Giverny in 1926. Monet's canvases were built for distance, and that is how they work on a wall: the strokes resolve into shimmering water, snow or morning haze as soon as the viewer steps back.