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The Unknown Monet of London
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Section 1: Background
Monet's Life
Oscar-Claude Monet was born in Paris in November 14, 1840 to Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet. At the age of 5, Money and his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy where his father wanted him to go into the family business of ship-chandling and grocery business, but Money had other ideas. [1] He was striving to be an artist rather than a shop owner and his mother, being a singer, supported his career in art. On the first of April, 1851, Monet entered the Le Havre secondary school of the arts and began to fulfill his dream. Locals at the time knew him well as he would sell his charcoal caricatures for ten to twenty francs. He took his first drawing lessons from Jacques-François Ochard and met Eugène Boudin on the beaches of Normandy in 1856. This is when Boudin taught him how to use oil paints and the techniques involved in “en plein air” paintings. [2] His mother died on January 28th, 1857 and at the age of sixteen, Monet left school to live with his widowed and childless aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. It was then that Monet visited the Louvre and painted his first works of art. [3] After being drafted into the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria in 1861, Monet contracted typhoid fever and went absent without leave. It was then that his aunt intervened to get him out of the army so long as Monet agreed to a complete one course in an art school. He was hesitant because of his disappointment in the traditional curriculum taught in art school and instead became a student of Charles Gleyre in 1862 in Paris. This was the moment the first true forms of Impressionism were created. Monet, along with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille and Alfred Sisley shared their different approaches to art and experimented with the effects of light outdoors through rapid and seemingly random brush strokes in conjunction with broken color schemes. He took these techniques with him across Europe painting different landscapes, buildings and environments and took his first trip to London in 1870-1. [4]
Monet in London
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The moment in arrive in London for the first time in 1870, Monet instantly fell in love with the atmospheric effects of the fog and the city itself. As soon as he left the city, he knew he wanted to come back and paint the city in all of its glory. Unfortunately, due to financial troubles at the time, he wasn't able to come back until 1899 when he could afford to stay at the Savoy Hotel, one of the world’s most luxurious hotels at the time. [5] It was there, on the sixth and fifth floor, that Monet created the London Series, a collection of 94 surviving oil paintings and many more that were never finished from 1899-1905. The current existing works consist of 19 paintings of Parliament, 41 of the Waterloo Bridge, and 34 of the Charing Cross Bridge. Monet would typically begin his day by painting the Waterloo and Charing Cross bridges and then paint the Houses of Parliament in the afternoon and evening. [6]
During the 18 month period surrounding Monet’s stay in London, he spent approximately 6 of those months in London painting the bridges. Monet chose the Savoy Hotel because of its remarkable view of all three landmarks displayed in his London Series and during his first stay from mid-September to the end of October/early November in 1899, Monet lived in and painted from the sixth floor. When he returned from 9 February to 5 April in 1900, he noticed that the entirety of the sixth floor was being used for injured soldiers from the Boer War, as per Princess Louise’s request. [7] Because of this, Monet worked from a suite on the fifth floor during his second and again on his third stay from 25 January until the end of March in 1901. In the days of Monet, a suite would have consisted of a bedroom and a sitting room, and at the Savoy, a balcony. This hotel and the specific rooms were recommended to him by fellow artist and friend James McNeill Whistler.
It can be established that during his first stay at the Savoy, Monet most likely worked from a corner suite on the sixth floor that Whistler had previously occupied and recommended because of the view from the balcony.[8][9] Whistler’s room and viewing position can be discovered by analyzing his lithographs 'Savoy Pigeons’ and ‘Evening - Little Waterloo Bridge’. These lithographs were produced in 1896 while he stayed at the Savoy for several weeks comforting his wife, Trixie, who was terminally ill with cancer. In the corner of ‘Savoy Pigeons’, the birds can be seen on the corner balcony to the left. Exploring this image more closely, one can also see that there are no pillars in the image. This is because the pillars of the Savoy Hotel are only present to and including the fifth floor. It can then be concluded that Whistler was painting from the corner suite on the sixth floor of the hotel.
Death
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- ↑ 'The New Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1974-01-01. p. 347. ISBN 9780852292907.
- ↑ 'Biography for Claude Monet Guggenheim Collection'. Retrieved 6 January 2007.
- ↑ Tinterow, Gary (1994). 'Origins of Impressionism'. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870997174.
- ↑ Khan, S., Thornes, J. E., Baker, J., Olson, D. W., & Doescher, R. L. (2010). 'Monet at the Savoy.' Area, 42(2), 208-216. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4762.2009.00913.x
- ↑ Taylor, J. R. (1995). 'Claude Monet impressions of France': from Le Havre to Giverny. London: Collins and Brown.
- ↑ 'Monet’s ‘London Series’ and the Cultural Climate of London at the Turn of the Twentieth Century'. (n.d.). Weather, Climate, Culture. doi:10.5040/9781474215947.ch-008
- ↑ Seiberling, G., & Monet, C. (1988). 'Monet in London.' Atlanta: High Museum of Art.
- ↑ Patin, S., & Monet, C. (1994). 'Claude Monet in Great Britain.' Paris: Hazan.
- ↑ Shanes, E. (1998). Impressionist London. New York: Abbeville P.