Jackie Wullschlager.
JACKIE WULLSCHLAGER: CLAUDE MONET BIOGRAPHY
MONET: THE RESTLESS VISION (2023)
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Claude Monet (born 1840) was a French artist who is regarded as the founder of impressionist painting. His mother died when Monet was sixteen, and he moved to live with his childless and wealthy aunt Marie-Jeanne, who encouraged his drawing. He went on to study at the Academie Suisse, where Auguste Renoir was a contemporary. Monet was meticulous and prolific. He would paint the same scene, for example of haystacks, many times over, to catch the various seasons and the changing light at different times of day. His paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny were his frequent subject for the last twenty years of his life. Monet enjoyed success in his lifetime, becoming even more famous and appreciated after his death in 1926.
Wullschager’s biography draws on thousands of letters not previously translated other unpublished sources. Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, wrote of the book: ‘Jackie Wullschläger's magisterial and utterly engrossing biography of Monet is a tour de force. Many of us know the painter but this beautifully written and meticulously researched book brings alive Monet as a man, and fundamentally changes our understanding and appreciation of his life and work. A triumph.’
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Jackie Wullschlager (born 1962) is an author and art critic, who writes for the Financial Times. Her previous book on Chagall, published in 2008, was shortlisted in the Csta Book Awards and the Duff Cooper Prize. She lives in London with her husband and three children.
