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Died. Claude Monet, 86, chief painter of the impressionists; in Giverny, France. After early discouragements from his father and the critics, he won, some time before old age, universal recognition for his singularly poetic landscapes, examples of which are frequent in U. S. museums. Georges Clemenceau, his life-long friend, was with him at the end, inconsolable...
...Boston Museum has perhaps the finest collection of Monet in America. Among the pictures are a famous marine showing a weather beaten bark, riding at anchor, her sails half-furled, and a brilliant wiater scene, "Le Debacle...
...Claude Monet, an old man of 86 and foremost French landscape painter, passed away at his home in Giveney, France...
...story of Monet's rise--to fame is one of constant striving for an ideal in the lace of all handicaps. As a soldier in Africa for the first part of his life, and then for many years when he struggled to sell his paintings as best he could he was face to face with that great problem of many an artist, the problem of the empty pocket...
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was among the first of the Impressionists. He has been consistently confused with his contemporary, Monet, by people who cannot tell black from white. Manet's figures are flat; Monet's trees and seas and flowery forests leap with a wind of movement. Manet loved light; Monet loved shading. Manet painted with a brush as broad as a glance of the eye; Monet put his color on in tiny dots. Manet saw life as a gleam; Monet saw it as a shimmer. It was late in life that Manet came to recognition; he was laughed...