Claude Monet

Painting gardens in Argenteuil, Mongeron and Paris

Paintings, pictures, posters and prints by Claude Monet

A Argenteuil pour la première fois Monet découvre la joie de posséder un jardin. Renoir a représenté son ami peignant cette toile dans "Claude Monet peignant dans son jardin à Argenteuil."	"Le Jardin de Monet à Argenteuil (les Dahlias)" Claude MONET 1873 National Gallery of Art, Washington Click to enlarge or to order a Poster	At Argenteuil Monet discovers the happiness of owning a garden. Renoir represented his friend painting this canvas in his work "Claude Monet painting in his garden at Argenteuil".
"Le motif est pour moi chose secondaire, ce que je veux reproduire, c'est ce qu'il y a entre le morif et moi." Claude Monet	"Au Jardin, la famille de l'artiste" Claude MONET 1875 Private collection Click to enlarge or to order a Poster	" The subject is of secondary importance to me ; what I want to reproduce is that which is in between the subject and me." Claude Monet
"Quant aux couleurs que j'emploie, est-ce si intéressant que cela ? Je ne le pense pas, attendu qu'on peut faire plus lumineux et mieux avec toute autre palette. Le grand point est de savoir se servir des couleurs, dont le choix n'est en somme qu'affaire d'habitude... " Claude Monet	"Le Parc Monceau" Claude MONET 1876 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Click to enlarge or to order a Poster	"Are the colors I use as interesting as all that ? I don't think so, considering that you can achieve more brightness with any other palette. The main thing is to know how to use colors, the choice of which boils down to a matter of habit." Claude Monet
"Ce n'est pas la lumière et l'ombre qui sont l'objet de ma peinture mais la peinture placée dans l'ombre et la lumière." Claude Monet	"Coin de jardin à Montgeron" Claude MONET 1876 Hermitage, St Petersburg Click to enlarge or to order a Poster	"The subject of my painting is not light and shade, but the painting placed in light and shade." Claude Monet

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