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  Claude and Camille

  A Novel of Monet

  by Stephanie Cowell

  Sometimes he dreamt he held her; that he would turn in bed and she would be there. But she was gone and he was old. Nearly seventy. Only cool paint met his fingers. “Ma très chère . . .” Darkness started to fall, dimming the paintings. He felt the crumpled letter in his pocket. “I loved you so,” he said. “I never would have had it turn out as it did. You were with all of us when we began, you gave us courage.... (more)
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  A Picnic with Monet

  by Claude Monet, Suzanne Bober, Julie Merberg

  This imaginative board book features beautiful paintings by a renowned artist paired with playful, rhyming text. In A Picnic with Monet, Claude Monet's light-filled paintings take children on an enchanted picnic in the countryside. This board book is a fun introduction ot art and an imaginative adventure all rolled into one!
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  Claude Monet: 1840-1926

  by Charles F. Stuckey, Claude Monet

  A comprehensive catalog that accompanies the Claude Monet retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago highlights the artist's career with examples of his paintings from every period, drawings and pastels, and a year-by-year chronology of his life. BOMC.
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  Claude Monet: 1840-1926 (Big Art Series)

  by Karin Sagner-Duechting

  Between the motif and the artist Claude Monet (1840-1926) was both the most typical and the most individual painter of Impressionism. His long life and extraordinary work capacity - coupled with a sometimes furious perfectionism--he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the... (more)
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  MONET: Account of the famous artist's life and works! Vivid illustrations(well over 60) of all his notable paintings. Each plate profiles it's name, the year it was painted, what it was painted on, it's size, and which museum it is kept in.

  by FRANK MILNER

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  Touch the Art: Count Monet's Lilies

  by Julie Appel, Amy Guglielmo

  Step into the garden— our day has begun. Find Monet’s lily and count to one . . .   This beautiful new entry in the series not only introduces children to Impressionism—perhaps the most popular artistic movement of all time--but also offers them fun with numbers. Kids can count fruit in Cézanne’s Still Life with Apples, pat six fancy hats in Degas’’ The Millinery Shop, feel the bumpy bark in Edouard... (more)
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  Monet in the 90s

  by Paul Hayes Tucker, Claude Monet

  In this book the author provides a fresh context for these canvases. The author also proposes that Monet's series paintings were not only an artistic response to the beauties of nature but were also related to contemporary events in France and to Monet's determination to provide active leadership for his nation's artistic production.
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  The Private Lives of the Impressionists

  by Sue Roe

  Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, today astonishing sums are paid for the works of these artists, whose paintings are celebrated for their ability to capture the moment, not only in the fleeting lights of a landscape but in scenes of daily life. Their dazzling pictures are familiar—but how... (more)
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  IMPRESSIONISTS IN WINTER EFFETS DE NEIGE

  by Charles S. Moffett, Eliza Rathbone, Katherine Rothkopf, Joel Isaacson

  An illustrated catalogue of 63 major winter landscapes by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Calliebotte and Gauguin.
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  How artists see

  How Artists See the Weather : Sun, Wind, Snow, Rain

  by Colleen Carroll

  Examines how various elements of the weather have been depicted in works of art from different time periods and places.
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  Claude Monet

  Life and Art

  by Paul Hayes Tucker

  This lavishly illustrated book presents the first complete overview of the life, art, and times of the quintessential Impressionist. Tucker, one of our foremost authorities on Monet, offers a striking new view of the artist, showing him to be a far more complicated figure than previously acknowledged, fiercely competitive and ambitious, as well as sensitive and inventive.
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  How Artists See

  How Artists See the Elements : Earth, Air, Fire, Water

  by Colleen Carroll

  Examines how the four elements have been depicted in works of art by various artists from different time periods and places.
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  Monet

  by Vanessa Potts

  Essential Monet With a comprehensive introduction, Essential Monet looks in detail at all aspects of the artistic style of Monet, with detailed commentary on 120 of his works. Some of these are considered his most important pieces; while others may be less well-known, but they are all essential to his artistic and philosophical development.