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"tombstone": "Spring Flowers, 1864. Claude Monet (French, 1840\u20131926). Oil on fabric; framed: 144.5 x 117.2 x 12.1 cm (56 7/8 x 46 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 116.8 x 90.5 cm (46 x 35 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1953.155",
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"title": "Spring Flowers",
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"measurements": "Framed: 144.5 x 117.2 x 12.1 cm (56 7/8 x 46 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 116.8 x 90.5 cm (46 x 35 5/8 in.)",
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"inscription": "Signed upper right corner: Monet 64\r\n",
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"title": "Two Sides of the Medal: French Painting from G\u00e9r\u00f4me to Gauguin",
"description": "Two Sides of the Medal: French Painting from G\u00e9r\u00f4me to Gauguin. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (September 28-November 6, 1954).",
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"title": "Horticulture Motifs in Art",
"description": "Horticulture Motifs in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 9-April 24, 1955).",
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"title": "Claude Monet: a loan exhibition",
"description": "Claude Monet: a loan exhibition. Saint Louis Art Museum (organizer) (September 25-October 22, 1957); Minneapolis Institute of Art (November 1-December 1, 1957).",
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"title": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.",
"description": "In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).",
"opening_date": "1958-03-04T05:00:00"
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"title": "A World of Flowers",
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"title": "A World of Flowers",
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"title": "Paintings by Monet",
"description": "Paintings by Monet. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (March 15-May 11, 1975).",
"opening_date": "1975-03-15T04:00:00"
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"id": 338409,
"title": "L'Art en France Sours Le Second Empire (Art in France Under the Second Empire)",
"description": "L'Art en France Sours Le Second Empire (Art in France Under the Second Empire). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (October 1-November 26, 1978); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (January 28-March 18, 1979); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (May 11-August 13, 1979).",
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"title": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960",
"description": "Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).",
"opening_date": "1987-09-16T04:00:00"
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"id": 338402,
"title": "Les Origines de l'Impressionnisme",
"description": "Les Origines de l'Impressionnisme. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (April 19-August 8, 1994); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (September 19, 1994-January 8, 1995).",
"opening_date": "1994-04-19T04:00:00"
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"title": "Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Still Life Painting",
"description": "Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Still Life Painting. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (organizer) (September 22, 2001-January 13, 2002); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (February 17-June 9, 2002).",
"opening_date": "2001-09-22T00:00:00"
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"id": 227545,
"title": "Monet's Garden",
"description": "Monet's Garden. Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, CH-8024 Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland (organizer) (October 29, 2004-March 13, 2005).",
"opening_date": "2004-10-29T00:00:00"
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"title": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Monet to Dal\u00ed: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).",
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"title": "Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse",
"description": "Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 6, 2015-January 5, 2016); Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (January 30-April 20, 2016).",
"opening_date": "2015-10-06T00:00:00"
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"title": "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism",
"description": "Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bazille and the Birth of Impressionism. Mus\u00e9e Fabre, Montpellier, France (June 25-October 16, 2016); Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Paris, France (organizer) (November 14, 2016-February 26, 2017); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (April 9-July 9, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2016-06-25T00:00:00"
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"id": 380542,
"title": "At the Source of Monet's Water Lilies: The Impressionists D\u00e9cor",
"description": "At the Source of Monet's Water Lilies: The Impressionists D\u00e9cor. Mus\u00e9e de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (March 1-July 11, 2022).",
"opening_date": "2022-03-01T05:00:00"
}
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"description": "La vingti\u00e8me exposition municipale des beaux-arts. Probably Mus\u00e9e de Rouen, Rouen, France (1864).",
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"description": "The artist's elder brother, L\u00e9on Pascal Monet [1836-1917], Rouen, France",
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"date": null,
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"description": "(Wildenstein & Col., New York, NY, April 17, 1953, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "Monet is quoted as saying, \"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.\" He painted this work in 1864, the first productive year of his career.",
"description": "This early work reveal's Monet's fascination with capturing the transitory effects that became the primary focus of his later innovations. Painted with almost scientific accuracy, this still life has a freshness and immediacy derived partly from its composition. Isolated against a dark background, the fully mature peonies, potted hydrangeas, and basketed lilacs spill downward and outward from the geraniums at the rear. At the same time, Monet's energetic brushwork conveys the sparkling play of light on leaves and petals.",
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"citation": "Dumas, Ann, William H. Robinson, Clare A. P. Willsdon, Monty Don, James Priest, Heather Lemonedes, and Lucy I. Zimmerman. Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse. 2015. catalogue no. 3",
"page_number": "90",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bazille, Fre\u0301de\u0301ric, Michel Hilaire, and Paul Perrin. Fre\u0301de\u0301ric Bazille (1841-1870) and the Birth of Impressionism. 2016. catalogue no. 52",
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"citation": "Venturi, Lionello, and Paul Durand-Ruel. Les archives de l'impressionnisme. Lettres de Renoir, Monet, Pissaro, Sisley et autres. Me\u0301moires de Paul Durand-Ruel. Documents. Paris, France: Durand-Ruel, 1939.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: v. 1, p. 20",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Spring Flowers.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XLI, no. 2 (February, 1954): 23-24.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: on cover",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "\"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums.\" The Art Quarterly XVII, no. 1 (Spring 1954): 63-75",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 68",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Detroit Institute of Arts. The Two Sides of the Medal; French Painting from Ge\u0301ro\u0302me to Gauguin. 1954.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 43, p 32, Reproduced: p. 36",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XLII, no. 6 (June,1955).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: on cover",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "City Art Museum of St. Louis. Claude Monet, a Loan Exhibition. 1957.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 1, 23, 27",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. In Memoriam Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 66",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "William Mathewson Milliken. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1958.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 52",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 502",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n92"
},
{
"citation": "ARTnews LVII, no. 1 (March 1958): 1.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 1",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1961.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 112",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Tate Gallery, and John Hay Whitney. The John Hay Whitney Collection. Exh. Cat. London, UK: Tate Gallery, 1961.",
"page_number": "p. 9, 14",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Clifford, Henry, and Carl Zigrosser. \"A World of Flowers: Paintings and Prints.\" Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 58, no. 277 (1963): 93-243. doi:10.2307/3795158.",
"page_number": null,
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/3795158"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 174",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n198"
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 174",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n198"
},
{
"citation": "Wildenstein, Daniel, and Aurora Colloridi. Claude Monet. Milan, Italy: Fratelli Fabbri, 1971.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 75",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Wildenstein, Daniel, Claude Monet: biographie et catalogue raisonne\u0301. Lausanne. Switzerland: La Bibliothe\u0300que des arts, 1974.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: vol.1, no. 20",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Monet, Claude, and Susan Wise. Paintings by Monet: [Exhibition] March 15 Through May 11, 1975, the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1975.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 3, p. 56-57",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Monneret, Sophie. L'impressionnisme et son e\u0301poque: dictionnaire international illustre\u0301. Paris, France: Denoe\u0308l, 1978.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: v. 2, p. 57; v. 2 p. 77",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 216",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n236"
},
{
"citation": "Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France). The Second Empire, 1852-1870: Art in France Under Napoleon III. Philadelphia: The Museum, 1978.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Stuckey, Charles F. Monet: A Retrospective. New York, NY, 1985.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 272",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Renoir, Auguste. Renoir: Hayward Gallery, London, 30 January-21 April 1985, Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 May-2 September 1985, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 9 October 1985-5 January 1986. [London]: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 183",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 95, no. 1",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Kendall, Richard. Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters. London, United Kingdom: Macdonald Orbis, 1989.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 35",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 158",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Bajou-Charpentreau, Vale\u0301rie, and Fre\u0301de\u0301ric Bazille. Fre\u0301de\u0301ric Bazille, 1841-1870. La Calade, Aix-en-Provence, France: Edisud, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 121",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Denvir, Bernard. The Chronicle of Impressionism: An Intimate Diary of the Lives and World of the Great Artists. London, UK: Thames and Hudson, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 32-33",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Grandjean, Gilles. Rouen, les Cathe\u0301drales de Monet: Exh. Cat. Rouen, France: Muse\u0301e des Beaux Arts, 1994.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 30",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Tucker, Paul Hayes. Mone ten = Monet, a retrospective. Exh. Cat. Nagoya-sh, Japan: Chu\u0304nichi Shinbunsha, 1994.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 82",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Tinterow, Gary, and Henri Loyrette. Origins of Impressionism. 1994.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 115, p. 177, Reproduced: 179",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Stuckey, Charles F., Claude Monet, Sophia Shaw, and James N. Wood. Claude Monet: 1840-1926. Exh. Cat. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 1995.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Wildenstein, Daniel, Monet: Catalogue Raisonne, 4 volumes. Ko\u0308ln, Germany: Taschen, 1996.",
"page_number": null,
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Wildenstein, Daniel. Monet. Ko\u0308ln, Germany: Taschen, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: Vol. 2, p. 16",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Pitman, Dianne W. Bazille: Purity, Pose, and Painting in the 1860s. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1998.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 80, Figure: 48",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "D' Argencourt, Louise and Roger Diederen. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of Paintings, Part II. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art,1999.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 447",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Rathbone, Eliza E., and George T. M. Shackelford. Impressionist Still Life. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 63, Plate 9",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Becker, Christoph. Monet's garden. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2004.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 15, Figure 1",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Willsdon, Clare A. P. In the Gardens of Impressionism. New York, NY: Vendome Press, 2004.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 40, Figure 39",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Willsdon, Clare A. P. Impressionist Gardens. Exh. Cat. Edinburgh, Scotland: National Galleries of Scotland, 2010.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 24, Figure 16",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Willsdon, Clare A. P. Jardines impresionistas. Exh. Cat. Madrid, Spain: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2010.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 55, Figure 19",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Dumas, Ann, William H. Robinson, Clare A. P. Willsdon, Monty Don, James Priest, and Heather Lemonedes. Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse. 2015.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 3, p. 90",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Willsdon, Clare A. P. In the Gardens of Impressionism. London: Thames and Hudson, 2016.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 40, fig. 39; Mentioned: P. 42",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Shackelford, George T. M., et. al. Monet: The Early Years. Fort Worth, TX: Kimball Art Museum, 2016.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 72, fig. 75",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Hilaire, Michel and Paul Perrin, eds. Fre\u0301de\u0301ric Bazille (1841-1870) and the birth of impressionism. Paris: Flammarion, 2016.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 95, fig. 52, cat. 110",
"url": null
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"citation": "Amiot-Saulnier, Emmanuelle. \"Le Jardin de Monet a Matisse.\" L'Estampille, l'objet d'art 521, (Mar. 2016): 28-35.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 32",
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{
"citation": "Patry, Sylvie, and Anne Robbins. Le De\u0301cor Impressionniste: Aux Sources des Nymphe\u0301as. Vanves: Hazan; Paris: Muse\u0301e de l'Orangerie, 2022.",
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},
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"citation": "Lefebvre, Ge\u0301raldine, ed. \"Collection L\u00e9on Monet. \u0152uvres.\" In Le\u0301on Monet: Fre\u0300re de l'Artiste et Collectionneur, 112-151. Paris: RMN - Grand Palais, 2023.",
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"citation": "David, Jeanne-Marie. \"Monet a Rouen: Peindre les Cathedrales.\" In Claude Monet: Portail de La Cath\u00e9drale de Rouen, Temps Gris, edited by Jeanne-Marie David, 9-23. Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana Editoriale, 2024.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 9-10, fig.1",
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"biography": "Claude Monet spent his youth in Le Havre in Normandy, where his father worked as a wholesale grocer. By the age of sixteen, he had exhibited some of his caricatures in an art supply store, leading to his acquaintance with Boudin (q.v.). It was Boudin who first encouraged him to paint out of doors. In 1859 Monet traveled to Paris, where he saw Boudin's salon debut and met Constant Troyon (1810-1865). A year later he joined the Acad\u00e9mie Suisse, where he was introduced to Pissarro (q.v.), but his studies were interrupted in 1861 when he was drafted for a seven-year stint in the military. His family would pay for his release from military duties only if he gave up painting. Finding this unacceptable, Monet served for one year in Algeria before an early return to France to convalesce after a severe illness. In 1862 he met Jongkind (q.v.), another important influence on the young painter's development. Monet's father then allowed him to pursue his art career in Paris, where he entered the studio of the Swiss painter Charles Gleyre (1806-1874). He studied with Gleyre until 1864 and befriended Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bazille (1841-1870), Renoir (q.v.), and Sisley (q.v.), with whom he painted in the forest of Fontainebleau (D\u00e9jeuner sur l'herbe, 1865, two fragments in Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Paris). Monet first exhibited at the Salon of 1865 and would do so again in 1866, 1868, and 1880. In 1868 he shared a studio with Bazille and Renoir but was soon forced to leave Paris to escape his creditors. He took his mistress, Camille Doncieux, and their son, Jean, to F\u00e9camp, then \u00c9tretat, and finally Saint-Michel. There Renoir provided hospitality, and the two also painted at the boating and bathing center of La Grenouill\u00e8re on the Seine. In 1870 Monet married Camille and, to escape the Franco-Prussian War, left for London, where he remained for nine months and met Durand-Ruel, his first dealer. In the summer of 1871 he visited the Netherlands and then settled in Argenteuil, to the west of Paris. He converted a boat into a studio, as Daubigny (q.v.) had done before him, allowing him to explore different viewpoints for his landscapes. He assisted in the organization of the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, partly because Durand-Ruel's worsened business situation had prevented the dealer from buying his art. The following year he participated in the H\u00f4tel Drouot sale with Morisot (q.v.), Renoir, and Sisley. In 1878 Monet and his wife moved to V\u00e9theuil with the Hosched\u00e9s, who had previously commissioned some works. Camille died the following year, and, while Ernest Hosched\u00e9 spent most of his time in Paris trying to settle his precarious financial situation, Monet stayed behind with Ernest's wife, Alice. In 1881 he moved with her and her children to Poissy and within two years was living at Giverny, where he would remain for the rest of his life. He painted some of his famous scenes-the haystack and poplar series, for example- in 1890-91. Ernest Hosched\u00e9 died in 1891, and Monet married Alice the following year. At Giverny, Monet explored the themes of his garden and water lilies. He continued to travel, going to Norway in 1895, making three trips to London from 1899 through 1901, and taking Alice to Venice in 1908. The final years of his life were mainly spent working on his Great Decorations, large paintings of a water lily pond designed for two oval rooms at the Paris Orangerie. Monet is generally considered the most typical exponent of impressionism.",
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