Claude Monet: A Life in Letters
Karen Serres author Frances Fowle author Sylvie Patry author Teresa Krasny author Flavie Durand-Ruel Mouraux author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Published:8th Oct '26
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'In almost every letter, like the sun breaking through the fog, come glimpses of Monet the painter: alive to light, enthralled by landscape, thrilled by the sky above and the water below' The Times
The first major English-language publication dedicated to Monet’s letters, expertly selected and richly illustrated with his paintings.
Claude Monet’s letters – to his friends, family, fellow artists, patrons and gallerists – offer an unmatched glimpse into the artist’s life, revealing his passions, anxieties and frank opinions, and expanding our view of his working life and practice. From his formative years to fame at the end of his life, this selection of letters is accompanied by profiles of his correspondents, expert introductions and comprehensive annotations. Illustrated with some of Monet’s best-known paintings, contemporary photographs and reproductions of some of the letters themselves, his world is revealed in words and images as never before.
Published to mark the centenary of the artist’s death, this is a fresh opportunity to explore the life and letters of the ‘father of Impressionism’ in his own words.
'The 417 letters collected in this handsome volume run from the everyday – an appeal against a speeding ticket – to the marvellous … The Monet summoned up by the letters is somewhere between Mr Micawber and Mr Pooter … But in almost every letter, like the sun breaking through the fog, come glimpses of Monet the painter: alive to light, enthralled by landscape, thrilled by the sky above and the water below. The letters illuminate in his words his obsessive dedication to his art and his lifelong fascination with light, sky, water and time' - The Times
'A scholarly and volatile portrait of the artist in his own words … with their well-chosen illustrations, these letters give us a granular portrait of a life of ceaseless striving and self-criticism in which the personal and painterly were inextricably braided' - Spectator
'Exquisitely illustrated' - Observer
'Excellent ... offers us a ringside seat on Monet's life' - Country Life
'A collection of missives sent by the artist to friends, family, fellow artists, patrons and gallerists ... Alongside are fascinating insights into the Paris art scene, and his practice' - House & Garden
'A fascinating insight into the man known as "the father of Impressionism"' - Artists & Illustrators
ISBN: 9780500030905
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1310g
552 pages