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“I Spend My Life Painting.” A Claude Monet Journey in the Impressionist Gallery

Culture · Saturday, October 3 · 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 parcours. 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 outdoors and to render his 'feeling.' They vitally translate the atmosphere of the banks of the Seine or the rough waves of the sea, spring greenery or the harsh winter of paysa…