I found my eyes fixed on the tragic countenance, mechanically trying to seek the sequence, the degradation of the colours that death had just imposed on the motionless face. Shades of blue, yellow, grey, and I don't know what… My automatic instinct was first to tremble at the shock of the colour.
— Claude Monet Modern

Impressionism founder

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Personal reflection on painting his dead wife, Camille Monet

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1879

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Strange & Unusual

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