Remembering Claude Monet on his birthday 🎂
📷 Nickolas Muray, Giverny, 1926
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"What an eye Monet has, the most prodigious eye since painting began! I raise my hat to him."
- Paul Cézanne
In June of 1926 the Hungarian-born American photographer Nickolas Muray visited Claude Monet at his home in Giverny. You can tell that he's a big fan!
Nickolas Muray & a colleague arrive at Claude Monet's Giverny Estate in June of 1926. For some reason, they have a chauffeur-driven Bentley.
Always a shock when someone from so long ago looks this cool.
Claude Monet by Nickolas Muray, 1926
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"I have a dream a picture of the bathing spot at the Grenouillere, for which I've made a few poor sketches, but it is a dream. Renoir, who has just spent two months here, also wants to do this painting."
Claude Monet, La Grenouillère, 1869
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Claude Monet, Morning on the Seine near Giverny, 1897
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"It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready made, completely written — but then, try to do it!"
John Singer Sargent
Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood, c. 1885
@Tate
"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at."
- Claude Monet
Bathers at La Grenouillère, 1869
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