Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King - 2017

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Content: Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are the most famous of all his creations. But these entrancing images were produced at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness and against the backdrop of World War I. By early 1914 French newspapers were reporting that Monet, then 73 years old, had retired his brushes. He had lost his wife and eldest son. And his famously acute vision was threatened by cataracts. But, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing, and the horrors ow the war grew ever closer, Money began painting again on a more ambitious scale.
404 pages, notes, index.