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Claude Monet decides to donate twelve large canvasses of "Waterlilies" to France. They are installed at the Orangerie in Paris in two oval rooms especially arranged for them. He finishes them in 1926.
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After being married, Monet and Camille with their friend, Gustave Courbet, sought refuge in London from the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). Frederic Bazille was killed in the war, ending a promising career. In England, Monet studied paintings by J. M. William Turner and John Constable, painted scenes of the Thames and Hyde Park and met gallery owner and soon-to-be Impressionist supporter, Paul Durand-Ruel. After the war and his father’s death, they returned to France through the Netherlands where he was influenced by Japanese prints and purchased several.
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Monet worked in many places, mostly near Paris, with occasional trips to the south of France, Venice, Holland, and London. After the death of Camille he lived with the widow of his friend and patron Ernest Hoschede, later she became his second wife. In 1890 he bought the house on the river Epte at Giverny that was his home from 1883 until his death in 1926.
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Vandals have broken into the Musée d'Orsay and punched a hole in Claude Monet's "Le Pont d'Argenteuil", in the latest in a series of attacks on artwork in France. A surveillance camera caught a group of four to five apparently drunk people entering the Paris museum early yesterday morning. An
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After several difficult months following the death of Camille, a grief stricken Monet (resolving never to be mired in poverty again) began in earnest to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century. During the early 1880's Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside. His extensive campaigns evolved into his series' paintings.
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