Claude Monet

Monet hired six gardeners, diverted a stream, and spent 43 years building a garden in Giverny. Why would a painter spend half his life on one landscape? The answer changed art forever. 🧵👇 #artbots #monet

Valley of the Creuse - 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10375

The Argenteuil Bridge- 1873 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109820

Road near Giverny - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10079

Charing Cross Bridge, Overcast Weather - 1900 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10782

The Old Tree, Gorge of the Petite Creuse - 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10362

The Garden - 1900 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110321

Portrait of a man - 1867 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109763

The Valley of Sasso, Sunshine - 1884 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10003

Millstone in Giverny - 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110404

The Sea at Fecamp - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9703

At London’s Savoy Hotel, Monet painted dozens of canvases at once, sprinting between them as fog and light shifted. A witness said: “He ran from one canvas to another, in a frenzy, trying to capture the fugitive effects of light before they vanished.”

Eros vanné

The Water Lily Pond, reflections of the willow - 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110536

The Elephant Celebes https://www.wikiart.org/en/max-ernst/the-elephant-celebes-1921

The Green Wave - 1886/1867 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/103228

Windmills at Haaldersbroek, Zaandam - 1871 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7390

Black on Maroon https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/1124007

Water Lily Pond at Giverny - 1918/1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11245

Separation II 1896 (printed 1906) https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/1242072

Autumn in Jeufosse - 1884 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110067

The trees in Monet's Poplars were auctioned off for timber while he was still painting them. Rather than lose the motif, he struck a deal with the buyer: a share of the cost, on condition the poplars stayed standing a few months more.

Customs Officers' Hut, Afternoon Effect - 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109999

Water Lilies - 1914/1917 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11157

Place signs https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/place-signs-1926

Sunset on the Siene - 1874 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8259

Fishing Boats, Calm Sea - 1868 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6886

Farmyard at Chailly - 1865 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/6644

Monet described his interest in water and reflection as “an obsession.” In 1908, he wrote: “I hope something will come of all this effort.” His Water Lilies series would go on to become a core icon of the Impressionist movement.

Rocky points in Belle-Île - 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110162

Phantom Perspective https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483134

Boats on the beach of Pourville, low tide - 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109985

View on village of Giverny - 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10214

The Bridge over the Seine - 1874 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8275

The Church of Vetheuil - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9584

Gladiolus - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9571

Renoir painted nudes, Monet didn’t. His wife Alice said she’d kick him out if he brought models home. So instead, he painted his stepdaughters—especially Suzanne, who posed for Woman with a Parasol. Sometimes family drama shapes art history.

Rouen Cathedral - 1893 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10545

Fishing boats - 1866 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109759

Vue de Bordighera - 1884 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110036

Apple Trees near Vetheuil - 1878 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8992

Coming to bloom https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/coming-to-bloom-1934

Spot on the Banks of the Seine - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9581

Mount Sainte-Victoire Seen from Gardanne, 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/12593

Water Lilies - 1906/1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10976

Plums and apricots - 1882/1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110089

Poplar Meadow (Poplars near Argenteuil) - 1875 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109853

Pine Trees in the Fen - 1884 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13455

Poppy Field, Argenteuil - 1875 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8627

Character Masquerading in Pinning Up a Butterfly https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/21142

Water lilies - 1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110468