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Claude Monet

Claude Monet
Weeping Willow
, About 1919
Oil on Canvas, 99.1 x 120 cm (39 x 47 1/4 inches)
Musée Marmotan, Paris (5080)

Claude Monet was the great Master of Impressionism, and the bridge between 19th century painting and modernist painting. Weeping Willow Giverny contemporarily with the Water Lilies. It was part of a series that was Monet's homage to France's fallen soldiers painted in the wake of World War I.

Read Ronnie Landfield's excellent essay,. Monet and Modernism, located on this site.

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