Dimensions
201 x 240 x 15mm
A beautifully designed exploration of the gardens at Giverny.
Claude Monet spent the last 43 years of his long life at Giverny creating the beautiful gardens: the most famous in France and one of the most visited in the world. Garden historian Caroline Holmes explores Monet's twin passions - painting and plants - and looks at his intelligent approach to creating a personal paradise of lily ponds and kaleidoscopic colour.
This beautiful book shows the artist as a consummate plantsman who composed his gardens with an Impressionist's care for colour and form, later to re-interpret in paintings of beautiful abstraction.
Drawing upon Monet's own voice and those of his contemporaries, and offering a wealth of horticultural detail, this book provides fascinating insight into his obsessional love of gardening and painting.
