"I would like to paint as the bird sings" - Claude Oscar Monet (1840 -1926)
Claude Monet was born on November 14, 1940 in Pairs, France. Monet was a leader of Impressionists.
His youth was spent in Le Havre,
During the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). He studied the
work of Constable and Turner. Here are some of his early works:
Hotel des Roches Noires, Trouville
Monet painted canals, boats, and windmills in Holland and worked again at Le Havre. Here are his first Impressionist paintings,
Regate a Argenteuil
The Highway Bridge at Argenteuil
Here are some of Monet's Late Impressionism pictures:
Camille Monet sur son lit de mort
The Bearking up of the ice at Vetheuil