Title: MONET'S GARDENS: CELEBRATED SUBJECTS OF GREAT ARTISTS. THEMES AND REFLECTIONS SERIES.
Publisher: Smithmark, (New York, 1997), Ist Smithmark printing.
Seller ID: 5928
80 pp, oblong 8vo, HC in dust jacket. "Claude Monet's passion for flowers and landscape began, as it did for other Impressionist painters, in a desire to paint directly from nature in the open air. The hours Monet spent painting, often in the gard ens or fields which surrounded the various homes he lived in, opened his eyes to the ever-changing tones and colors displayed by the countryside at different times of the day. Color revealed by light, Monet discovered, created different worlds o u t of the same hills, trees and flowers..." This book contains "(s)ome sixty paintings, carefully chosen to reflect all aspects of the artists' treatment of their theme...finely reproduced in color...Significant details from the paintings are s ep ar at e ly enlarged and each picture is accompanied by an informative caption which sets the painting in context, in terms both of what the artists was aiming for and of its place in the history of art..." Book is clean and tight with no previ ou s o wne rsh ip marks. Dust jacket has very minor rubbing. NF/NF
CLAUDE MONET IMPRESSIONISM IMPRESSIONISTS ARTISTS FRENCH GARDENS FLOWERS FLORALS
