MONET, Claude
(b. 1840, Paris, d. 1926, Giverny)

Palm Trees in Bordighera

1884
Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

In 1883 and 1884 Monet traveled to the south, from Marseille to the Italian Riviera to get new inspiration. First he was accompanied by Renoir, then he returned alone to Bordighera. He painted about fifty paintings characterized by intensive and expressive colours.




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