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At auction. Sotheby's. May 19 2022
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auc.../le-grand-canal-et-santa-maria-della-salute-2
Claude Monet
Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute
“Venice has got hold of him and won’t let him go”
ALICE HOSCHEDÉ MONET
Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute is a masterpiece not only from within Claude Monet’s Venice series but also from his entire artistic output. A shimmering, luminescent view of the Grand Canal and Santa Maria della Salute, the present canvas is one of the finest works created during the artist’s Venetian sojourn and presents a daring encapsulation of the traits that make Monet one of the most unique and visionary artistic voices of the twentieth century.
Up until almost the day of his and his wife Alice’s departure, Monet dragged his feet in going to Venice. Initially conceived as a vacation from painting—in the past five years Monet had completed roughly one-hundred Nymphéas canvases—within a week of their arrival the artist shifted in tone from finding Venice “too beautiful to paint” to a painting campaign that would result in nearly forty oils created from a number of vantage points throughout the storied city.
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At auction. Sotheby's. May 19 2022
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auc.../le-grand-canal-et-santa-maria-della-salute-2
Claude Monet
Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute
“Venice has got hold of him and won’t let him go”
ALICE HOSCHEDÉ MONET
Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute is a masterpiece not only from within Claude Monet’s Venice series but also from his entire artistic output. A shimmering, luminescent view of the Grand Canal and Santa Maria della Salute, the present canvas is one of the finest works created during the artist’s Venetian sojourn and presents a daring encapsulation of the traits that make Monet one of the most unique and visionary artistic voices of the twentieth century.
Up until almost the day of his and his wife Alice’s departure, Monet dragged his feet in going to Venice. Initially conceived as a vacation from painting—in the past five years Monet had completed roughly one-hundred Nymphéas canvases—within a week of their arrival the artist shifted in tone from finding Venice “too beautiful to paint” to a painting campaign that would result in nearly forty oils created from a number of vantage points throughout the storied city.
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