Monet
Subtitle: the early years
By: George T. M. Schackelford ; with essays by Anthea Callen [and 3 others]
Contributors: Callen, Anthea, writer of essay; Kimbell Art Museum; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Publisher: Kimbell Art Museum
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780300221855; 9780912804552
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Exhibitions
Description: This elegant volume is the first to be devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet (1840-1926). Bringing together the greatest paintings from his early career-including his first Salon-exhibited work, the Kimbell Art Museum's La Pointe de la Heve at Low Tide; Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) and The Magpie from the Musee d'Orsay; and The Green Wave and La Grenouillere from the Metropolitan Museum of Art-it features essays by distinguished scholars, focusing on the evolution of Monet's own distinctive mode of painting. Through the 1860s, the young painter absorbed and transformed a variety of influences, from the lessons of the Barbizon school and his mentor Boudin to the challenges posed by his friends Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley. Artistic innovation and personal ambition shaped the work of the celebrated impressionist painter from the very start of his long and illustrious career.
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition at Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, October 16, 2016 - January 29, 2017;  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, February 25 - May 29, 2017.

Errata sheet tipped in at page 22.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-201).