Monet: Water Lilies: The Complete Series

by Denis Rouart and Jean-Dominique Rey

Monet, the father of French impressionist painting, devoted twenty-five years to a series of paintings of the water lilies that floated in the pond of his lavish garden in Giverny. This volume is dedicated to those paintings, and opens with a biography of Monet that links the artist's childhood passion for nature and for drawing to his later fascination with light. Monet's experiments with how to best capture light and its effect on the sky and on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2080300768
• ISBN13: 9782080300768
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.6" x 12.4"