Biografie von Claude MONET (1840-1926)
Personal data
Birth : 11/14/1840 - Paris, France
Death : 12/05/1926 - Giverny, France
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : France
Family relations
Stepfather of Blanche HOSCHÉDÉ-MONET [ 1865-1947 ]Education
1860 : Académie Suisse – Paris, France
Friend of Camille PISSARRO 卡米耶•毕沙罗 [ 1830-1903 ]
1862 :
Pupil of / student of Charles GLEYRE [ 1808-1874 ]
Professional data
Work and Life
1926:Finds himself unable to part with the ‘Water lily’ pictures. He destroys a few more of them. In August, a tumour in the lung is diagnosed. On 5 December, he dies of sclerosis of the lungs in the presence of Clemenceau.
1925:At the beginning of the year he says he wishes to withdraw from the donation, which evokes a harsh response from Clemenceau. Motivated by his improved sight, Monet works intensively through the summer in the open. From autumn onwards, he devotes hims
1924:Although the delivery date for the ‘Water lily’ decorations has expired, Monet will not part with the pictures. At the end of the year, his sight improves with the help of new lenses.
1923:Undergoes a first operation for the cataract in his right eye; two others follow. Wears tinted optical lenses.
1923:Monet is nearly blind. He has an operation from the cataract in one eye. His sight improves.
1922:Paul Durand-Ruel dies. Signs a provisional document donating the Grandes Décorations to the state. Because of the poor state of his eyes, he has to stop painting temporarily. Destroys several paintings.
1921:Bonnier submits a number of designs to Monet, but he doesn’t like them. The authorities suggest making an existing building available. The choice falls on the Orangerie in the Tuileries. Camille Lefèvre is appointed as the new architect.
1920:Negotiations with the state over the donation of the Grandes Décorations, for which he demands that an appropriate exhibition space be made available. Architect Louis Bonnier is commissioned to design a pavilion for the garden of the Hôtel Biron.
1919:His eyesight continues to deteriorate, but he is afraid to have an operation for fear of going blind.
1918:After the armistice, he wishes to donate two pictures to the state, to celebrate the victory of the Allies. Clemenceau and Geffroy propose the construction of a peace hall with twelve large wall panels by the artist.
1916:Throughout the war, Monet donates paintings to charitable institutions.
1914:Jean Monet dies.
1913:Travels to Switzerland.
1912:Learns in July that he is suffering from a double cataract.
1911:Alice dies.
1909:His eyesight becomes increasingly poor.
1908:Lacking confidence in his work, he is supposed to have destroyed pictures every day. In the autumn, travels to Venice.
1904:Travels to Madrid
1900:Takes several trips to London
1894:Cézanne visits Giverny.
1893:Purchases a neighbouring plot of land at Giverny, and begins to turn it into a water garden.
1892:Marries Alice Hoschedé
1891:Death of Ernest Hoschedé.
1890:Buys the house at Giverny he had previously rented.
1887:Spends the summer painting in Giverny, where Rodin visits him.
1886:Visits the Belle-Île-en-Mer off the coast of Brittany to paint, where he gets to know Gustave Geffroy, who has been writing about him for three years and later becomes his biographer.
1885:Spends the autumn in Étretat. Friendship with Guy de Maupassant.
1884:Returns to Italy, remaining in Bordighera until April. He spends the summer painting in Giverny and on the coast at Étretat. Initiates monthly Impressionist meetings at the Café Riche in Paris.
1883:The family moves to Giverny. Monet stocks his garden, painting taking a back seat. At the end of the year, he and Renoir travel to the Mediterranean coast, visiting Cézanne in L’Estaque.
1882:Works in Dieppe and Pourville, where he spends the summer.
1881:Alice Hoschedé and her six children still live with the Monets. With a joint household of ten, they move to a larger house in Poissy.
1879:Camille dies.
1878:Birth of second son Michel. In August, the family moves in with the Hoschedés in Vétheuil, on the Seine.
1877:Camille seriously ill. Monet’s patron Hoschedé is bankrupted, with profound effects on Monet’s finances and subsequent family life.
1876:Acquires a generous patron in store director Ernest Hoschedé. Paints his first decorative works.
1875:Financial situation deterioriates.
1874:First exhibition by the ‘Société’, later called the 1st Impressionist exhibition. One of Monet’s paintings, Impression, soleil levant, leads to the group as a whole being called Impressionists. More Seine pictures from the boat, and works with Manet
1873:Founding of the ’Société anonyme des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs, etc.
1872:Paints river scenes of the Seine in Argenteuil from his studio boat. Sells to Durand-Ruel and private collectors. Able to afford a more comfortable lifestyle at last.
1871:Studies paintings by John Constable and William Turner. Returns to Paris via Holland and, at the end of the year, moves to Argenteuil.
1870:Marries Camille, Courbet is his witness. Spends summer in Trouville. Outbreak of Franco-Prussian War. In autumn, Monet flees with his family to London to avoid conscription. Paints first views of London. Becomes acquainted with his future dealer Paul
1869:Moves to Bougival, where he paints with Renoir at the resort of La Grenouillère on the Seine. First purely Impressionist paintings. Renoir helps Monet out with food.
1868:Monet, Camille and Jean move to Bonnières-sur-Seine, then to Le Havre, Fécamp and Étretat.
1867:Lives and works with Bazille again. Birth of his son by Camille, Jean-Armand-Claude.
1866:Moves to Sèvres. Meets Edouard Manet. Spends summer painting in Sainte-Adresse and Honfleur. Meets up with Boudin again and Gustave Courbet.
1865:Joint studio with Bazille. Close contacts with Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley. Acquaintance with Henri Fantin-Latour.
1864:Makes acquaintance of medical student Georges Clemenceau, later a publisher, politician and ultimately Prime Minister of France. Stays in Honfleur with Boudin, Bazille, Jondkind.
1863:Together with Bazille, paints landscapes out of doors during the spring at Chailly near Barbizon.
1862:Discharged, meets Jongkind and entered the studio of Gleyre in Paris where his fellow pupils Renoir, Sisley, Bazille became his friends.
1861:Military service with the 1st African Cavalry Regiment in Algiers
1859:Moves to Paris
1856 – 1857:Earns money doing caricatures and landscape sketches. Becomes acquainted with landscape painter Eugène Boudin. First experiments in open-air painting.
1845:The family moves to Le Havre.
Work
Categorie and medium
Painting : Oil/canvas Subject
lightlandscape
portrait
Movements and styles
French ImpressionismImpressionism
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Works
| Water Lilies | |
| Date of creation : 1926 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 79 x 168 inch | |
| Les décorations des Nympheas | |
| Date of creation : 1926 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| La maison à travers les roses | |
| Date of creation : 1926 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 66 x 82 cm | |
| Seerosenteich mit Iris | |
| Date of creation : 1922 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 200 x 600 cm | |
| The Japanese Bridge | |
| Date of creation : 1922 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 35 x 46 inch | |
| Nympheas (water Lilies) | |
| Date of creation : 1921 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 198 x 597 cm | |
| Weeping Willow (Saule pleureur) | |
| Date of creation : 1919 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 100 x 120 cm | |
| Waterlilies | |
| Date of creation : 1915 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Les arceaux fleuris, Giverny | |
| Date of creation : 1913 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Le Parlement, effet de brouillard | |
| Date of creation : 1904 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 33 x 37 inch | |
| Waterlilies | |
| Date of creation : 1903 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 32 x 40 inch | |
| The Houses of Parliament (Effect of Fog) | |
| Date of creation : 1903 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 81 x 92 cm | |
| Charing Cross Bridge, Fog | |
| Date of creation : 1902 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 29 x 36 inch | |
| The Cliffs at Pourville | |
| Date of creation : 1897 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 66 x 101 cm | |
| Rouen Cathedral, The Façade in Sunlight | |
| Date of creation : 1894 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 106 x 74 cm | |
| Les Peupliers au bord de l'Epte | |
| Date of creation : 1891 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 92 x 74 cm | |
| A Canoa sobre o Epte | |
| Date of creation : 1890 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 133 x 145 cm | |
| La Grande Bleue à Antibes | |
| Date of creation : 1888 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 61 x 73 cm | |
| Antibes: Morning | |
| Date of creation : 1888 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Felder im Frühling | |
| Date of creation : 1887 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| On the Boat | |
| Date of creation : 1887 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 146 x 134 cm | |
| Willows in Heat Haze, Giverny | |
| Date of creation : 1886 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 74 x 93 cm | |
| Giverny Landscape, Snow Effect | |
| Date of creation : 1886 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 65 x 81 cm | |
| Haystack at Giverny | |
| Date of creation : 1886 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 61 x 82 cm | |
| Poppy Field in a Hollow, Near Giverny | |
| Date of creation : 1885 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 65 x 81 cm | |
| La Corniche | |
| Date of creation : 1884 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Villas a Bordighera | |
| Date of creation : 1884 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 74 x 92 cm | |
| The Rocks at Pourville, Low Tide | |
| Date of creation : 1883 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 64 x 79 cm | |
| Environ de Giverny | |
| Date of creation : 1883 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 25 x 82 cm | |
| The Chef (Monsieur Paul) | |
| Date of creation : 1882 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 65 x 52 cm | |
| Fisherman's cabin at Varengeville | |
| Date of creation : 1882 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 60 x 78 cm | |
| Fishing nets at Pourville | |
| Date of creation : 1882 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Waves Breaking | |
| Date of creation : 1881 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 60 x 81 cm | |
| La Falaise à Fécamp | |
| Date of creation : 1881 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 65 x 81 cm | |
| Artist's Garden at Vetheuil | |
| Date of creation : 1881 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 101 x 81 cm | |
| El deshielo en Vétheuil | |
| Date of creation : 1881 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 60 x 100 cm | |
| Die Seine bei Eisgang | |
| Date of creation : 1881 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil | |
| Date of creation : 1880 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 152 x 121 cm | |
| Orillas del Sena | |
| Date of creation : 1880 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Across the Meadow (A travers la prairie) | |
| Date of creation : 1879 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 32 x 39 inch | |
| La Berge à Lavacourt (Riverbank at Lavacourt) | |
| Date of creation : 1879 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Vétheuil en été | |
| Date of creation : 1879 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 68 x 91 cm | |
| Vétheuil in Winter | |
| Date of creation : 1878 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 68 x 89 cm | |
| Gladioli | |
| Date of creation : 1876 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 60 x 83 cm | |
| Tow-Path at Argenteuil, Winter | |
| Date of creation : 1875 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Woman seated on a Bench | |
| Date of creation : 1874 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 74 x 56 cm | |
| Boulevard des Capucines | |
| Date of creation : 1874 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 79 x 59 cm | |
| Girl in a Garden with a Dog | |
| Date of creation : 1873 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Springtime | |
| Date of creation : 1872 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Le Printemps à Argenteuil | |
| Date of creation : 1872 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Impression : soleil levant | |
| Date of creation : 1872 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 48 x 63 cm | |
| Le Moulin de l´Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam | |
| Date of creation : 1871 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| The Seine at Bougival, Evening | |
| Date of creation : 1869 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Still Life with Flowers and Fruit | |
| Date of creation : 1869 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| La Seine à Bougival (The Seine at Bougival) | |
| Date of creation : 1869 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Fishing Boats at Sea | |
| Date of creation : 1868 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| Honfleur | |
| Date of creation : 1868 Medium : Oil/canvas | |
| On the Bank of the Seine, Bennecourt | |
| Date of creation : 1868 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 82 x 101 cm | |
| Garden of the Princess, Louvre | |
| Date of creation : 1867 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 92 x 62 cm | |
| Camille | |
| Date of creation : 1866 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 231 x 151 cm | |
| Haystacks at Chailly | |
| Date of creation : 1865 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 30 x 60 cm | |
| Coastal landscape | |
| Date of creation : 1864 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 53 x 80 cm | |
| Spring Flowers | |
| Date of creation : 1864 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 117 x 91 cm | |
| Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe | |
| Date of creation : 1863 Medium : Oil/canvas Size : 81 x 101 cm | |
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
Solo exhibitions
2001
I luoghi della pittura
Casa dei Carraresi – Treviso TV, Italy
09/29/2001 – 02/10/2002
Monet & Japan
NGA National Gallery of Australia – Canberra ACT, Australia
03/09/2001 – 06/11/2001
2000
Promenade…
Musée Marmottan – Paris, France
04/27/2000 – 12/31/2000
1999
Monet At Giverny: Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix AZ, United States
09/18/1999 – 01/02/2000
Monet: Late Paintings of Giverny from the Musée Marmottan
SDMA San Diego Museum of Art – San Diego CA, United States
06/27/1999 – 08/30/1999
Monet At Giverny: Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan
Albright Knox Art Gallery – Buffalo NY, United States
05/23/1999 – 08/29/1999
Monet, le cycle des Nymphéas
Musée de l’Orangerie – Paris, France
05/06/1999 – 08/02/1999
Monet At Giverny: Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan
Musée des Beaux-Arts – Montréal QC, Canada
01/28/1999 – 05/09/1999
Monet in the 20th Century
Royal Academy of Arts – London, United Kingdom
01/23/1999 – 04/18/1999
1998
Monet in the 20th Century
MFA Museum of Fine Arts – Boston MA, United States
09/20/1998 – 12/27/1998
Monet: Late Paintings of Giverny from the Musée Marmottan
Portland Art Museum – Portland OR, United States
09/18/1998 – 01/03/1999
1995
Claude Monet: 1840-1926
The Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago IL, United States
07/22/1995 – 11/26/1995
1921
Retrospective
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune – Paris, France
1921
1919
Durand Ruel Gallery – New York NY, United States
1919
1912
Venise
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune – Paris, France
1912
1911
Durand Ruel Gallery – New York NY, United States
1911
MFA Museum of Fine Arts – Boston MA, United States
1911
1909
Les Nymphéas, Séries de paysages d’eau 1903-1908
Galerie Durand Ruel – Paris, France
1909
1906
Faure Collection
Galerie Durand Ruel – Paris, France
1906
1904
Thames in London
Galerie Durand Ruel – Paris, France
1904
1902
Durand Ruel Gallery – New York NY, United States
1902
1900
Japanese bridge
Galerie Durand Ruel – Paris, France
1900
1898
Galerie Georges Petit – Paris, France
1898
1895
Durand Ruel Gallery – New York NY, United States
1895
Galerie Durand Ruel – Paris, France
1895
1892
Poplars
Galerie Durand Ruel – Paris, France
1892
1891
Wheatstack
Galerie Durand Ruel – Paris, France
1891
1889
Goupil Galleries – London, United Kingdom
1889
1883
Galerie Durand Ruel – Paris, France
1883
1880
La Vie Moderne – Paris, France
1880
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
Art shows / fairs
2004
FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, n°31
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/21/2004 – 10/25/2004
Represented by : Galerie Larock-Granoff – 13 Quai de Conti – Paris, France
2001
Art Basel Miami Beach: cancelled
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/13/2001 – 12/16/2001
Represented by : Galerie Beyeler – Bäumleingasse 9 – Basel BS, Switzerland
Artpalmbeach – 4th Modern & Contemporary Art Fair
International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches – West Palm Beach FL, United States
01/10/2001 – 01/15/2001
Represented by : O’Hara Gallery – #1302 41 East 57th Street – New York NY, United States
2000
International Artexpo California
San Francisco CA, United States
11/02/2000 – 11/05/2000
Represented by : Museum Editions West – 4130 Del Rey Avenue – Marina Del Rey CA, United States
1999
Art21
Las Vegas NV, United States
11/03/1999 – 11/06/1999
Represented by : Dexa – 5 rue Jean Jacques Rousseau – Paris, France
Artpalmbeach – Modern & Contemporary Art Fair
International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches – West Palm Beach FL, United States
03/10/1999 – 03/15/1999
Represented by : Lisa Kurts Gallery – 766 South White Station Road – Memphis TN, United States
1880
Le Salon
Paris, France
1880
1868
Le Salon
Paris, France
1868
1866
Le Salon
Paris, France
1866
1865
Le Salon
Paris, France
1865
Group exhibitions
2004
Paris Painters: From Renoir to Picasso: the Osacr Ghez Collection
Kunsthal Rotterdam – Rotterdam, Netherlands
10/02/2004 – 01/23/2005
2003
Paradise
National Gallery – London, United Kingdom
07/10/2003 – 09/28/2003
Paradise
Laing Art Gallery – Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear, United Kingdom
04/12/2003 – 06/29/2003
Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musée d’Orsay
MFAH Museum of Fine Arts – Houston TX, United States
04/06/2003 – 06/29/2003
A Private Passion: 19th Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
Musée des Beaux-Arts – Lyon, France
03/14/2003 – 05/26/2003
Paradise
City Museum and Art Gallery – Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom
01/18/2003 – 03/30/2003
2002
Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musée d’Orsay
High Museum of Art – Atlanta GA, United States
11/23/2002 – 03/16/2003
Edouard Manet und die Impressionisten
Staatsgalerie – Stuttgart, Germany
09/21/2002 – 02/09/2003
Impressions: Kunst für den Tropenwald/Art for the Tropical Forest
Galerie Beyeler – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/08/2002 – 11/15/2002
Le Regard de l’autre
Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts – Rouen, France
04/27/2002 – 09/02/2002
Claude Monet … bis zum digitalen Impressionismus
Fondation Beyeler – Riehen BL, Switzerland
03/28/2002 – 08/18/2002
2001
Claude Monet und die Moderne
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kultur-Stiftung – Munich, Germany
11/23/2001 – 03/10/2002
Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape
MFAH Museum of Fine Arts – Houston TX, United States
01/21/2001 – 04/15/2001
2000
From Rembrandt to Rubens and Monet to Matisse
NGA National Gallery of Art – Washington DC, United States
10/04/2000 – 02/04/2001
Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts – Richmond VA, United States
09/19/2000 – 12/10/2000
Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape
National Gallery of Canada / Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada – Ottawa ON, Canada
06/01/2000 – 08/27/2000
1999
Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape
N/BMFA Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts – Nagoya, Japan
04/17/1999 – 09/26/1999
1998
Manet, Monet, and the Gare Saint-Lazare
NGA National Gallery of Art – Washington DC, United States
06/14/1998 – 09/20/1998
Manet, Monet, la gare Saint-Lazare
Musée d’Orsay – Paris, France
02/09/1998 – 05/17/1998
1919
Monet / Rodin
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune – Paris, France
1919
1902
Monet / Pissarro
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune – Paris, France
1902
1900
Renoir / Monet
Durand Ruel Gallery – New York NY, United States
1900
Universal Exhibition / Exposition Universelle
Paris, France
1900
1899
French Art
Saint Petersburg, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
1899
French Art
Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
1899
1897
Biennale di Venezia
Venice VE, Italy
1897
1889
Universal Exhibition / Exposition Universelle
Paris, France
1889
Monet / Rodin
Galerie Georges Petit – Paris, France
1889
1887
6ème Exposition Internationale de Peinture et Sculpture
Galerie Georges Petit – Paris, France
1887
1886
Les XX
Brussels, Belgium
1886
Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris
New York NY, United States
1886
5ème Exposition Internationale de Peinture et Sculpture
Galerie Georges Petit – Paris, France
1886
1885
4ème Exposition Internationale de Peinture et Sculpture
Galerie Georges Petit – Paris, France
1885
1882
7ème Exposition Impressionniste
Paris, France
1882
1879
4ème Exposition Impressionniste
Paris, France
1879
1877
3ème Exposition Impressionniste
Paris, France
1877
1876
2nde Exposition Impressionniste
Galerie Durand Ruel – Paris, France
1876
1874
Première Exposition Impressionniste
Chez Nadar – Paris, France
1874
1858
Exposition municipale de la Ville du Havre
Le Havre, France
1858
Bibliography (Selected)
By the artist
Books
1998
Mon histoire
Publisher: L’Echoppe – Paris, France
1998
On the artist
Books
1999
Waterlilies
Publisher: Editions Hazan – 3 rue Fleurus – Paris, France
Author: Georgel Pierre
1999
1998
Monet
Publisher: Editions du Chêne – 43 quai Grenelle – Paris, France
Author: Phay-Vakalis Soko
1998
1997
Monet
Publisher: Phaidon Press – Regent’s Wharf – London, United Kingdom
Author: Rachman C.
1997
1994
Claude Monet in Great Britain
Publisher: Editions Hazan – 3 rue Fleurus – Paris, France
Author: Patin Sylvie
1994
1992
Monet
Publisher: Editions Gründ – 60, rue Mazarine – Paris, France
Author: Sproccati Sandro
1992
Monographies
1987
Claude Monet : sa vie, son oeuvre
Author: Geffroy Gustave
1987
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