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Article: Why is Monet so big at box office?; It took sex, whiff of scandal, money, a lot of scholarly digging.(VARIETY)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- June 3, 1998
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Until about 20 years ago, Claude Monet was by reputation just another garden-variety Impressionist painter laboring along with his buddies in a vineyard of official rejection. Like his pals Renoir, Manet, Pissarro and Sisley, he was most famous for showing his art with a bunch of independent painters who had been rejected by the Salon, France's official, government-sponsored exhibition.
Now Monet is a household name. Tourists make pilgrimages to his restored home and garden in Giverny, France. Exhibitions proliferate and Monet paintings fetch increasingly steep prices at auction; last month his "Grand Canal" fetched $12.1 million. Snippets of Monet paintings ...
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