Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism

by Philippe de Montebello

Over the past fifty years the luxuriant gardens at Monet's house in Giverny slowly perished and ran wild. Weeds choked the garden paths and flowerbeds; termites feasted on the celebrated Japanese footbridge; sludge invaded the water-lily pond. Finally the gardens were closed to visitors. Yet this spring Monet's carefully designed and lovingly cultivated gardens--which provided the greatest single source of his work for over forty years--will be reopened...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300195931
• ISBN13: 9780300195934
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 11.9"