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I Spend My Life Painting. A Claude Monet Journey in an Impressionist Gallery
Culture · Saturday, October 10 · 09:30 · Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Free
To mark the centenary of his death, Claude Monet is honored in the Impressionist Gallery (rooms 29 to 35) through a dedicated tour. Five paintings, recently studied or restored, reveal another facet of his art, less spontaneous than it may seem. 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 render his 'sensation.' They vividly convey the atmosphere of the banks of the Seine or the ships' waves, the spring greenery or the harsh winter of the countryside…
