The Taste of Giverny: At Home with Monet and the American Impressionists

by Claire Joyes

By the end of the nineteenth century, a "colony" of Anglo-Saxon painters, mostly American, had settled in Giverny. They were drawn by the beauty of this picturesque village and its surrounding countryside, and by the presence of Calude Monet who had settled there in 1883. The link between the master of Impressionism and the new arrivals was strong: not only did Monet influence their painting style, but socially the artists lived in a close-knit community,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2080136879
• ISBN13: 9782080136879
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 11.3"