A monograph spanning Monet's entire career: from early works completed in the Forest at Fontainebleau, through his mature landscapes and Thames paintings to the near abstract later works at Giverny.

Author: Stephan Koja, Claude Monet, John Brownjohn
Hardcover:  223 pages Illustrated
Company: Prestel  (1996-06)
ISBN: 3791316710
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Julie lives in Paris, but she longs to walk in a beautiful country garden. When her mother takes her on a visit to rural Giverny, Julie discovers a beautiful garden and befriends the man she believes is the gardener. In fact, he is the garden?s owner, the immortal artist Claude Monet. This is a title in Barron?s Anholt?s Artists Books for Children series, in which author and illustrator Laurence Anholt recalls memorable and sometimes amusing moments when the lives of the artists were touched by children. Anholt?s fine illustrations appear on every page and include reproductions of works by the artists.

Author: Laurence Anholt
Paperback:  32 pages
Company: Barron's Educational Series  (2007-08-17)
ISBN: 0764138553
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These 40 paintings follow Claude Monet?s progress through years of landscapes, tracking changes in his work and making the case that fields and meadows may have been his most revealing theme. Starting in 1873, Monet began painting the fields around Argenteuil with occasional human subjects--his first wife Camille and their small boy Jean--in close brushwork that brought out a vibrating tension, large-scale liveliness. The series of Seine landscapes upon which he embarked in 1878, around the area of Vétheuil, compared the river?s untouched meadows to that cultivated farmland. Canvases from the spring of 1880 contain a particularly palpable joy on the renewal of the land after a very hard winter. And it was after relocating to Giverny in 1883--a move that coincided with the increasing establishment of the Impressionist movement as the most important development in French art of that era--that Monet painted the work from which this monograph takes its name, his 1887 Fields in Spring, with its crucially austere organization of surfaces and highly systematic palette. It was a turning point in his oeuvre, a mingling of severity and simplification that brought incomparably harmonious effect and the unbroken admiration of his colleagues. This concise study closes with the fascinating paintings of 1894 in which Monet perfected this systematic approach.

Author: Christofer Conrad, Christian von Holst, Claude Monet
Hardcover:  144 pages
Company: Hatje Cantz Publishers  (2006-08-15) (2006-08-15)
ISBN: 3775717501
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One of the most influential painters of modern times, Claude Monet lived for half his life in the famous house at Giverny. It was after moving here in 1883 with his future second wife, Alice Hoschedé, and their eight children that Monet's work finally achieved recognition. His growing success meant that he was able to indulge his passion for comfort and good living.

Family meals, special celebrations, luncheons with friends, picnics: all reflected the Monets' love of good food. Just as the inspiration for many of Monet's paintings was drawn from his beloved gardens and the surrounding Normandy landscape, so the meals served at Giverny were based upon superb ingredients from the kitchen-garden (a work of art in itself), the farmyard, and the French countryside.

A moody, reserved, and very private man whose daily routine revolved totally around his painting, Monet nevertheless enjoyed entertaining his friends, many of whom were leading figures of the time. As well as his fellow Impressionists -- in particular Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas and Cézanne -- other regular guests included Rodin, Whistler, Maupassant, Valéry, and one of Monet's closest friends, the statesman Clemenceau.

They came to dine in almost ritual form, first visiting Monet's studio and the greenhouses, then having lunch at 11:30 (the time the family always dined, to enable Monet to make the most of the afternoon light). Tea would later be served under the lime trees or near the pond. Guests were never invited to dinner; because Monet went to bed very early in order to rise at dawn. All the guests were familiar with Monet's rigid timetable.

The recipes collected in his cooking journals include dishes Monet had encountered in his travels or had come across in restaurants he frequented in Paris as well as recipes from friends, such as Cézanne's bouillabaisse and Millet's petits pains.

For this book, the author Claire Joyes, wife of Madame Monet's great-grandson, has spent years selecting the Monets' favorite recipes and writing a wonderfully evocative introductory text. All of the recipes have been artfully prepared and brought back to life in Monet's own kitchen by master chef Joël Robuchon.

Illustrated with sumptuous reproductions of Monet's paintings, spectacular original four-color photographs of Giverny, selected shots of finished dishes, and facsimile pages from the notebooks themselves, this book provides a fascinating and unique insight into the turn-of-the-century lifestyle of one of the world's most celebrated Impressionist painters.

Author: Claire Joyes
Hardcover:  192 pages
Company: Simon & Schuster  (2006-12-12)
ISBN: 1416541314
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Claude Monet is considered one of the most influential artists of all time. He is a founder of the French Impressionist art movement, and today his paintings sell for millions of dollars. While Monet was alive, however, his work was often criticized and he struggled financially. With over one hundred black-and-white illustrations, this book unveils a true portrait of the artist!

Author: Ann Waldron
Paperback:  112 pages
Company: Grosset & Dunlap  (2009-07-23) (2009-07-23)
ISBN: 0448449854
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Author: Claude Monet
Calendar:  96 pages
Company: teNeues Calendar  (2009-08-01) (2009-08-01)
ISBN: 3832739335
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81 color, 34 b&w illus. 9 x 10.

Author: Daniel Wildenstein
Hardcover:  160 pages
Company: Harry N. Abrams  (1995-08-30)
ISBN: 0810981386
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The first biography of Monet written especially for young readers. This highly readable text traces Monet's life as a young boy in LeHavre, his studies in Paris, and his eventual achievement of international renown in his forties. 53 illustrations, 33 in full color.

Author: Ann Waldron
Hardcover:  92 pages
Company: Harry N. Abrams  (1991-09-30)
ISBN: 0810936208
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"Steven" traces Monet's life from his childhood, through his rejection of traditional painting and the development of Impressionism, to his final, settled years in Giverny, sprinkling the report with his own drawings and comments.

Author: True Kelley
Paperback:  32 pages
Company: Grosset & Dunlap  (2001-10-01)
ISBN: 044842522X
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Author: C. P. Weekes
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