Word: monet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Claude Monet, Prince of Impressionists, earlier reported to have recovered his sight (TIME, March 17), went under the surgeon's knife for the third time at his home at Giverny, 50 miles from Paris. Dr. Coutela, eye specialist, attempted to remove a new cataract which has formed since the operations of last February. When the bandage was removed on July 26, M. Monet could see clearly with one eye, but further surgery may be necessary. The great age of the painter (81) adds danger to the delicate task...
...Monet still hopes to paint again, and to complete the great mural design of water lilies, to be hung in the orangerie of the Tuileries, upon which he was working when blindness fell upon...
Auguste Rodin, the greatest sculptor of his time, sought the same thing in stone which Monet sought in paint-movement and the effect of luminosity. He was a self-made man in more than one sense, since, working up from poverty, carving statues for 60 years, he resembled in his last years one of his own works in stone...
...Claude Monet, blind French painter and last of the great Impressionists, recovered his eyesight after a surgical operation at which his oldest friend, Georges Clemenceau, stood at his side to cheer him. Monet, 83, has been blind for several years. It is not likely that he will paint another of the remarkable " series" which made him famous. But at least he has recovered, for himself, what he chiefly sought in art,- the pageant of moving light and air. Going out at dawn into a field near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little...
...civilization whose science can restore sight to Claude Monet...