Chapter 3
In the last decades of his life, Monet worked obsessively on his most ambitious and experimental series devoted to the water-lilies in his garden pond. This project was the elderly Impressionist’s homage to the very act of looking. Onto these large canvases Monet translated the changing reflections on the surface of the water by means of repetitive, sinuous, sketchy brushstrokes of an unprecedented spontaneity. The works by Monet in this section engage in a visual dialogue with the impressionist abstraction of the French painter André Masson (one of the first to champion Monet anew) and with the subtle transparencies of the American painter Helen Frankenthaler.
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- Autor:
- Claude Monet
- Título:
- The Water-Lily Pond, 1917-1919
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas. 100 x 200 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Albertina, Vienna - Batliner Collection
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- Autor:
- Helen Frankenthaler
- Título:
- Lorelei, 1957
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Oil on untreated cotton duck. 179.4 x 220.3 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn. Purchase gift of Allan D. Emil (58.39)
- © Helen Frankenthaler. VEGAP, Madrid, 2010
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- Claude Monet
- Título:
- Water-Lilies, 1916-1919
- Fecha:
- Tipo:
- Oil on canvas. 200 x 180 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Fondation Beyeler, Riehen / Basel
- Numero de inventario
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- Autor:
- André Masson
- Título:
- Spring Approaches, 1957
- Fecha:
- 1869-1870
- Tipo:
- Oil and sand on canvas. 172 x 55 cm
- Medidas:
- Úbicacion:
- Private Collection, Paris
- © De las reproducciones autorizadas. VEGAP. Madrid, 2010
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