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...have been distressed that no mention has been made that the Monet Gardens, if they are to be open to the public, will need at least $100,000 a year for three years before they will become selfsupporting. Donations to the Versailles Foundation will serve this purpose...
...Monet Gardens...
...would like to congratulate Robert Hughes for his article on the Monet exhibition [May 1]. My husband, Gerald Van der Kemp, has been working on the task of restoration of the Monet Gardens, a project made possible through a starting grant by Mrs. DeWitt Wallace...
...Monet gave impressionism the dignity of classical art, though by the turn of the century he was no longer an impressionist in the sense of working outdoors, directly from the motif. Whether his canvases, he remarked, "are painted from life or not is nobody's business and of no importance whatsoever." They were in fact painted from memory-but the span of memory was as short as the walk from the pond to the studio. In his genius for rendering evanescence within a monumental structure, Monet became a master of le temps retrouvé: the most Proustian of painters...
These are essential texts for Monet's lily-pond paintings, with their almost indistinguishable precisions of color, their deep tracts of the reflected sky (no horizon line, no orientation in space; the eye floats in an amniotic fluid of light), and their intricate play between air colors in the water and the solider rafts of lilies crossing them like clouds. Toward the end of his life, as his vision degenerated-first, after a series of primitive cataract operations, distorting his sight toward yellow, and at last toward blue-Monet rarely left his garden; but then, he did not need...