Claude Monet
Subtitle: 1840-1926
By: Charles F. Stuckey ; with the assistance of Sophia Shaw.
Contributors: Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.; Shaw, Sophia, 1969-; Art Institute of Chicago.
Publisher: Thames and Hudson; The Art Institute of Chicago
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 -- Exhibitions; Impressionism (Art) -- France -- Exhibitions
Description: Claude Monet: 1840-1926 is published to coincide with a major exhibition of Monet's works at The Art Institute of Chicago - the largest retrospective of Claude Monet ever held. A lavishly illustrated record of the exhibition, it presents in full color 161 assembled masterpieces, drawn from collections all over the world.

Charles F. Stuckey, a leading Monet scholar, presents an extensive month-by-month chronology of the artist, examining his life and work in absorbing detail. In an introductory essay he emphasizes a variety of overlooked issues at the heart of Monet's work: the importance of structure in his art, for example; the significance of the early landscape paintings; and his stature not only as the leading impressionist painter but also as a major twentieth-century artist.

Monet is considered here primarily in terms of his own ambitions to be a virtuoso, a revolutionary, and a perfectionist. As this book makes clear, despite his present popularity he is still not credited for many of his most remarkable achievements.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, July 22 - Nov. 26, 1995.