Claude Monet: A Life in Letters
Will be published approx. on 8. October 2026
Book
Hardback
552 pages
978-0-500-03090-5 (ISBN)
Description
The first major English-language publication dedicated to Monet's letters, expertly selected and richly illustrated with his paintings.
Claude Monet's letters - to his friends, family, fellow artists, patrons and gallerists - offer an unmatched glimpse into the artist's life, revealing his passions, anxieties and frank opinions, and expanding our view of his working life and practice. From his formative years to fame at the end of his life, this selection of letters is accompanied by profiles of his correspondents, expert introductions and comprehensive annotations. Illustrated with some of Monet's best-known paintings, contemporary photographs and reproductions of some of the letters themselves, his world is revealed in words and images as never before.
Published to mark the centenary of the artist's death, this is a fresh opportunity to explore the life and letters of the 'father of Impressionism' in his own words.
Claude Monet's letters - to his friends, family, fellow artists, patrons and gallerists - offer an unmatched glimpse into the artist's life, revealing his passions, anxieties and frank opinions, and expanding our view of his working life and practice. From his formative years to fame at the end of his life, this selection of letters is accompanied by profiles of his correspondents, expert introductions and comprehensive annotations. Illustrated with some of Monet's best-known paintings, contemporary photographs and reproductions of some of the letters themselves, his world is revealed in words and images as never before.
Published to mark the centenary of the artist's death, this is a fresh opportunity to explore the life and letters of the 'father of Impressionism' in his own words.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
156 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 165 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-500-03090-5 (9780500030905)
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Persons
Teresa Krasny is Director and Curator of the Alan & Caroline Howard Collection. Frances Fowle is Emeritus Professor of 19th-century art at the University of Edinburgh. Flavie Durand-Ruel is the great-great-granddaughter of Monet's art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel. She is Director of FDR Fine Arts and has undertaken extensive research of the Durand-Ruel Archives. Karen Serres is Senior Curator of paintings at the Courtauld Gallery, London. Sylvie Patry is a former Deputy Director at the Musee d'Orsay and head of the Musee d'Orsay's and Musee de l'Orangerie's anniversary celebrations.