Facts about Claude Monet
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During the 1890s, Monet spent approximately 30,000 francs constructing an elaborate water garden system with Japanese bridges and pond landscaping at his Giverny estate.
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Monet's series paintings of the Rouen Cathedral facade numbered 30 completed works between 1892 and 1894, exploring how changing light conditions transformed the Gothic structure's appearance.
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Haystacks, a series of 25 paintings completed between 1890 and 1891, demonstrated Monet's revolutionary approach to capturing how light transformed the same subject across different times and seasons.
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Monet's 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise depicting the port of Le Havre inadvertently gave the Impressionist movement its name when a critic mockingly titled his review after the work.
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In 1883, Monet relocated to Giverny and spent the next four decades transforming his property into an elaborate Japanese-inspired garden that became his primary artistic subject.
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Cataracts severely impaired Monet's color perception in his final years, yet he continued painting his garden series until his death in 1926 at age 86.
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Over 250 paintings of water lilies were created by Monet between 1890 and 1926 at his Giverny garden in France.