Monet. The Triumph of Impressionism (Bibliotheca Universalis)

Few artists, besides William Turner, struggled as much as Claude Monet (1840–1926) to capture light on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, he is the one of whom Cézanne once said: "Only one eye, and yet... my God... what an eye!" Monet always adhered to the principle of absolute fidelity to visual perception and painted directly from nature.

It could be said that Monet rediscovered the possibilities of color. His work profoundly transformed our perception of the world and its phenomena, whether through his early interest in Japanese prints, his experience as a young recruit under the relentless Algerian sun, or his association with the greatest painters of the late 19th century. Monet reached the pinnacle of his research with his late series of Water Lilies, painted in his garden at Giverny, which, in its quest for a near-formless quality, marks the birth of abstract art.

This biography pays tribute to a remarkable and highly influential artist and offers numerous reproductions, archival photographs, and detailed texts on his life and work.