Article: 'Nature transforming itself': normandy inspired some of Monet's greatest work, as Jeffrey Meyers discovers in San Francisco.(EXHIBITIONS)(Claude Monet)

Claude Monet, born in Paris but taken to Le Havre at the age of five, was as Norman as calvados and camembert. He painted Rouen and the north coast of France and ended his life at Giverny, on the southern edge of the region, where he created lush gardens, lily ponds and a Japanese footbridge to provide new subjects for his art. Moving downstream from Paris to the Channel also orientated Monet toward England. He took refuge there during the Franco-Prussian War, and in 1901 watched Queen Victoria's funeral with two American expatriates, John Singer Sargent and Henry James.

The 'Monet in Normandy' exhibition, nicely grouped by subject, includes Whistlerian ...

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