OBITUARY
CLAUDE MONET THE ARTIST.
(Received Gth December, 2 p.m.) .;, PARIS, sth December.: - Claude Monet, the' famous French artist, is dead. "*,"
In the later years of his life Claude" '.•■•■ Monet worked, at his painting' solelJ'••'-• in the neighbourhood of Giverny, whero he lived, and devoted himself to tlie '--'• study of modifications in -the aspect of a limited number of subjects,caused by"'"" changes in the light and'in the seasons"^''"' He produced a series of twelve large composition's dealing with this side of-";' - his art, while another series, painted./ in 1913, represents a corner of his'gar-"""' den under varying conditions. In 19T8' he produced a number of pictures deal- ' ing with the same subject. In his"" ' earlier years he painted a number *bf *"""" pictures that made him famous "in French salons, but of recent years ._*__._■. has devoted all his energies to the 'scientific side of his art in its relation.--.--to light and seasonal periods" of tne '*"* year. -. •
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 136, 6 December 1926, Page 10
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