Claude Monet, "Pyramids at Port-Coton, Rough Sea"
Pyramids at Port-Coton, Rough Sea, Claude Monet 1886, oil on canvas 65 x 81 cm, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Russia.
Painting Description :
These rocks generally called needles are called pyramids in Brittany, on the Atlantic coast of France. Monet spent the Fall 1886 on the island of Belle Ile.
"I am in a wonderfully wild place", he wrote to his friend the painter Caillebotte, "amongst a heap of terrible rocks and an unbelievably coloured sea. "
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| See Also in Giverny Directory : |
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Monet House at Argenteuil |
| The Artist s House at Argenteuil, Claude Monet 1873, oil on canvas 60.5 x 74 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois USA. (Hits:23200) |
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Meadow with Poplars near Argenteuil |
| Poplars near Argenteuil or Meadow with Poplars, Claude Monet 1875, oil on canvas 54.5 x 65.5 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts USA. (Hits:29720) |
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Monet The Luncheon |
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En Francais :
Pyramides de Port-Coton, mer sauvage