Monet

by Wildenstein, Daniel; Neret, Gilles; Monet, Claude

• ISBN13: 9783822885598
• ISBN10: 3822885592
• Edition: Boxed
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: Taschen America Llc

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Origins and Birth	9	(1)
The Move to Le Havre	9	(2)
The Schoolboy	11	(1)
Ochard's Student -- Early Efforts	12	(4)
His Mother's Death	16	(1)
Caricatures	16	(1)
Meeting Boudin	17	(3)
Grant Applications	20	(1)
Paris	21	(3)
Thomas Couture	24	(1)
The Academie Suisse	25	(2)
From Delacroix to Daubigny	27	(1)
The Brasserie des Martyrs	28	(3)
The Impasse	31	(3)
Conscription	34	(1)
Algeria	34	(5)
The Meeting with Jongkind	39	(1)
Exoneration	40	(2)
Toulmouche	42	(1)
Charles Gleyre and his Academy	43	(2)
Life in the Studio	45	(3)
Chailly-en-Biere	48	(1)
The Demise of the Academy	49	(1)
Honfleur	50	(3)
The Rue de Furstenberg and the First Salon	53	(5)
The Luncheon on the Grass	58	(2)
Camille	60	(2)
Women in the Garden	62	(4)
The Birth of Jean	66	(1)
A Return to his Roots	67	(3)
A Low Point	70	(1)
Madame Gaudibert	70	(5)
Dream and Awakening	75	(3)
La Grenouillere	78	(1)
Marriage	79	(4)
Trouville and the War	83	(2)
London	85	(3)
Zaandam	88	(3)
Rue de I'Isly	91	(3)
Early Days in Argenteuil and the Trip to Rouen	94	(2)
The Port of Argenteuil	96	(3)
Income	99	(2)
The Doncieux Inheritance	101	(2)
Tomorrow's Men	103	(1)
Impression	104	(4)
Making the Best of Hard Times	108	(3)
Great Encounters	111	(3)
The Hotel Drouot	114	(4)
Misfortune in the Rue Le Peletier	118	(2)
Ernest Hoschede	120	(3)
From Parc Monceau to the Chateau de Rottembourg	123	(2)
The Gare Saint-Lazare	125	(5)
Leaving Argenteuil	130	(2)
L'Ile de la Grande Jatte	132	(1)
The Exposition Universelle	133	(2)
The Last Hoschede Sale	135	(2)
Vetheuil: Another New Start	137	(2)
Settling In	139	(2)
As Quick to Hope as to Despair	141	(2)
The Baritone Scapegoat	143	(2)
The Death of Camille	145	(3)
Merciless People, Merciless Winter	148	(2)
Poverty and Hope	150	(2)
Icebreak and Renewal	152	(3)
The Gaulois Affair	155	(2)
"I am working furiously	157	(2)
Lavacourt at the Salon	159	(1)
La Vie Moderne	160	(3)
Flourishing	163	(2)
The Return of Durand-Ruel	165	(3)
Conflicts	168	(2)
Leaving Vetheuil	170	(3)
Poissy and the Collapse of the Union Generale Bank	173	(1)
At "La Renommee des Galettes	174	(2)
From the Reichshoffen Panorama to the Pourville Seascapes	176	(3)
"Will you like what I am bringing Back?"	179	(1)
From Euphoria to Despair	180	(3)
Provisional Reckonings and a Further Trip	183	(1)
The Hotel Blanquet at Etretat	184	(2)
"The Fiasco of My Exhibition"	186	(2)
Somewhere Permanent to Live	188	(1)
Giverny	189	(4)
Bordighera	193	(3)
Monsieur Moreno, "A Veritable Marquis de Carabas"	196	(4)
Bordighera to Menton	200	(1)
New Difficulties	201	(2)
Octave Mirbeau	203	(2)
From the Lathuille Banquet to the International Exhibition	205	(2)
The Life of a Landscape Artist	207	(2)
The Manneporte	209	(4)
"Yesterday's Monet is Dead"	213	(4)
Zola's L' CEuvre	217	(2)
Young Women with a Parasol	219	(3)
Belle-Ile, Russell and Poly	222	(5)
"Once I get started, nothing stops me"	227	(6)
Gustave Geffroy	233	(1)
The Chateau de la Pinede	234	(4)
The Whole Gang	238	(3)
Theo van Gogh's Mezzanine and the Giverny Studio	241	(3)
Anecdote versus Fact	244	(2)
The First Grainstacks	246	(2)
Chez Maurice Rollinat	248	(2)
"If Flaubert had been a Painter"	250	(2)
"For ever Monet! For ever Rodin!"	252	(4)
Homage to the Memory of Edouard Manet	256	(2)
Monet as a Teacher	258	(2)
Antonin Proust under Fire	260	(6)
Gustave Larroumet Besieged	266	(2)
"Don't make a martyr of yourself by desiring the impossible"	268	(5)
Such a Beautiful Landscape	273	(1)
Variatons on a Theme: the Grainstacks	274	(2)
Requiem for a Man of Letters	276	(3)
From the Grainstacks to the Poplars	279	(4)
The Blue, Pink or Yellow Cathedral	283	(1)
The Marriages	284	(3)
The Hotel de Ville Affair	287	(2)
A Pond to Make, A Cathedral to Paint	289	(4)
The New World, The Old World	293	(1)
Legacies, Sales and Added Value	294	(5)
Camondo, Signac and Cezanne	299	(2)
Sandviken near Christiania	301	(3)
As if in Japan	304	(4)
"Cathedral Revolution"	308	(1)
Monet and the Environment	309	(3)
Returns and Repetitions	312	(2)
"So all of them are Manets, all Monets, all Pissarros"	314	(2)
The Henri Vever Sale	316	(1)
Leon Gerome	317	(2)
Maurice Guillemot, an Inspired Reporter	319	(3)
Zola's Admirable Courage	322	(5)
Boredom or New Start	327	(1)
"The Paganini of the Rainbow"	328	(3)
"So much pain and heartache"	331	(1)
A "Complete and Unanimous" Success	332	(3)
Apotheosis or Decline?	335	(3)
The First Series of Japanese Bridges	338	(2)
The First London Bridge Pictures	340	(2)
The Dawn of the 20th Century	342	(3)
"I am a Complete Imbecile"	345	(2)
London Society	347	(3)
The Centennial Exhibition	350	(1)
The Water-Lily Pond	351	(2)
"This is not a country where you can finish a picture"	353	(1)
The Meadow	354	(2)
Farewell to Vetheuil	356	(2)
Towards a Subjective Impressionism	358	(4)
"Study and research, which will prove fruitful"	362	(2)
Enthusiasm to Order or Spontaneous Admiration?	364	(3)
"Gardening and painting apart, I'm no good at anything"	367	(3)
London: The Entente Cordiale	370	(4)
Louis Vauxcelles at Giverny	374	(3)
A Pond of Light	377	(2)
Delicate Comparisons and a Well-orchestrated Campaign	379	(2)
Social Process?	381	(3)
An Autumn in Venice	384	(4)
The Water-Lilies Exhibition in 1909	388	(2)
From Decoration to Abstraction	390	(1)
The Flood of 1910	391	(1)
The Death of Alice	392	(4)
"I am completely fed up with painting ..."	396	(1)
Onset of the Cataract	397	(3)
"I feel I am undertaking something very important"	400	(3)
A Studio Constructed in the Midst of War	403	(3)
The Grand Decorations Before All Else	406	(3)
A Triumph in Two Panels	409	(2)
The Law of Silence	411	(2)
The Donation Made Public	413	(2)
From the Hotel Biron to the Orangerie	415	(6)
The Donation is Formalised	421	(1)
Preparing for the Cataract Operation	422	(1)
An Operation in Three Stages	423	(3)
Patience of Dr Coutela	426	(3)
The "Patriarch of Art"	429	(2)
"As if he had all eternity before him"	431	(2)
From Charles Coutela to Jacques Mawas	433	(2)
The Donation Under Threat	435	(4)
The Swan Song	439	(3)
"Nothing to be done"	442	(1)
"Monet...may still get back in the saddle"	443	(4)
"A disease which cannot be cured"	447	(5)
The Last Remission	452	(2)
A Gentle Death	454	(3)
The Funeral	457	(4)
Epilogue	461	(6)
Index of Proper Names	467	(10)
Archives and Sources	477	(2)
Acknowledgements	479