This beautiful slipcased volume offers an intimate tour inside Monet's
home and through the idyllic Giverny garden that inspired his most
iconic paintings.
Monet first spotted the village of Giverny from the window of a train
and then relocated to the rural haven outside Paris in 1883. Monet was
an artist with a passion for painting landscapes and outdoor scenes, and
the garden at Giverny soon became the Impressionist master's greatest
artistic accomplishment and a catalyst for his work. In 1890, Monet
began renovating it, installing a picturesque water lily pond inspired
by the Japanese prints he avidly collected. The setting of Monet's
Water Lilies series--his most famous works--it is now the most visited
garden of its size in the Western world.
The beautifully vivid illustrations of Monet's paintings, his home, and
the grounds give readers unprecedented access into the flowery paradise
to which Monet dedicated the last forty years of his life. Lovers of
garden design and Impressionist art are invited on an intimate tour via
this handsome volume.