26 september 2019

Claude Monet #14



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At the beginning of May 1883, Monet and his large family rented a house and two acres from a local landowner. The house was situated near the main road between the towns of Vernon and Gasny at Giverny. There was a barn that doubled as a painting studio, orchards and a small garden. The house was close enough to the local schools for the children to attend and the surrounding landscape offered an endless array of suitable motifs for Monet's work. The family worked and built up the gardens and Monet's fortunes began to change for the better as his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel had increasing success in selling his paintings. By November 1890 Monet was prosperous enough to buy the house, the surrounding buildings and the land for his gardens.
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(bron: Claude Monet Gallery)

"Avant de voir quelques documents d'époque, précisons qu'au décès de Claude Monet le 5 décembre 1926 à Giverny, c'est son fils Michel (1878-1966) qui hérite de la maison. Celui-ci laisse sa belle soeur, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet l'occuper. Lorsque Blanche décède, en 1947, le jardin est laissé à l'abandon jusqu'en 1966, date à laquelle Michel Monet lègue la propriété à l'Académie de Beaux-Arts.
Onze ans plus tard, Gérald Van der Kemp entreprend la restauration du jardin. Les travaux commencent en 1977, pour une ouverture au public en 1980.
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La maison du pressoir, maison de Claude Monet. L'entrée principale de la maison avec les rampes de l'escalier d'accès à la coursive sur laquelle ouvrent les autres entrées, notamment celle de la cuisine.


La facade et, à gauche, le bureau-atelier début 1920.


Une photo des années 1970 avant sa restauration. (bron: PBase | GIVERNY AUTREFOIS)


Monet’s Home in Giverny today. (bron: Taste&Travel, foto: Ariane Cauderlier)


The large window of Monet’s first studio. (bron: Giverny Impression)


The Salon-Atelier as it is today.


Monet at work(?hk) in the Salon-Atelier, 1915. (bron: Toutlafrance)


Claude Monet standing in his first studio.

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This room located in his main house at Giverny was turned into his sitting-room after 1890. The picture was made in springtime according to the tulips behind Monet. The photo reveals how much the painter loved flowers. There were at least six vases in his studio on this day! When Monet became successful, he built a new house in the corner of his garden, where he moved his studio. He had now a well lit large room to work in and to store his paintings. The former studio became a place where he used to have a liquor after lunch, where he would sit to read a gardening book or a novel by Maupassant. Monet also used to write many letters. The paintings for sale where displayed in the second studio whereas he kept the ones he cherished too much to sell them in the first studio."
(bron: WebArtAcademy)

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