Spring in Giverny-Claude Monet-Print landscape

Print landscape entitled “Spring in Giverny” 1890, originally painted by Claude Monet Claude Monet was a successful caricaturist in his native Le Havre, but after studying plein-air landscape painting, he moved to Paris in 1859. He soon met future Impressionists Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir and Monet began painting outdoors together in the late 1860s, laying the foundations of Impressionism. In 1874, with Pissarro and Edgar Degas, Monet helped organize the Société Anonyme des Artistes, Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc., the formal name of the Impressionists' group. During the 1870s Monet developed his technique for rendering atmospheric outdoor light, using broken, rhythmic brushwork. He received little but abuse from public and critics alike, who complained that the paintings were formless, unfinished, and ugly. He and his family endured abject poverty. By the 1880s, however, his paintings started selling; Pissarro accused him of commercialism, and younger painters called him passé, for he remained loyal to the Impressionists' early goal of capturing the transitory effects of nature through direct observation. In 1890 he began creating paintings in series, depicting the same subject under various conditions and at different times of the day. His late pictures, made when he was half-blind, are shimmering pools of color almost totally devoid of form. This landscape was painted in the countryside at Giverny, where Monet spent the last years of his life and created his now famous water lily pond. The building visible through the blossoming trees is probably the small railway station of Giverny-Limentz. Monet has captured the light and air, the wispy trees and meadow, through his delicate brushstrokes and pastel colors. This very masterfully piece is complimented by a brown wood frame and matted in a white v-grooved mat and is doubled in a blue mat. The framed print measures a total of 32.5”x 38”. Monet’s use of atmospheric perspective gives depth to this excellent composition. Signed in the bottom right corner, this print would be a great addition to any art enthusiast’s collection and is remarkably priced.