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I spend my life painting. A Claude Monet journey in the Impressionist Gallery
Culture · Wednesday, October 14 · 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 29–35) through a dedicated parcours. Five paintings, recently studied or restored, reveal another facet of his art, less spontaneous than it seems. Tracing the early decades of his career to the turn of the century, his paintings show his ongoing quest to paint en plein air and to convey his “sensation.” They vividly convey the atmosphere of the banks of the Seine, the foamy waves of the sea, spring greenery, or the harsh winter of landscapes.
