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« I spend my life painting ». A Claude Monet journey in the Impressionist gallery
Culture · Saturday, October 31 · 09:30 · Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Free
On the occasion of the centenary of his death, Claude Monet is honored in the Impressionist Gallery (rooms 29 to 35) through a dedicated journey. Five paintings, recently studied or restored, reveal another facet of his art, less spontaneous than it seems. Tracing the first decades of his career up to the turn of the century, his paintings show him in his quest to paint en plein air and to convey his “sensation.” They brilliantly translate the atmosphere of the banks of the Seine or the rough waves of the sea, spring greenery or the harsh winter of paysa…
