The recent exhibitions of Monet's work have centered on his Series paintings and then Water Lilies. In 2003 (2 August to 26 October) the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, will present 55 paintings made at Vetheuil and on the Normandy coast.
David Joel has worked on this period over many years at Vétheuil. Monet lived there for 4 years and it was there that his first wife Camille,immortalized in over 70 paintings, died of cancer leaving their two young boys. They had shared their small house with the recently bankrupted Hoschedé family of which Alice was the mainspring. Years later, when Ernest Hoschedé died, Monet was to marry Alice. Never before or after did Monet work so hard over a period of five years.
With his dealer's assistance he finally triumphed and was able to rent his home at Giverny and buy it later on. Despite the numerous books on Monet, this period at Vétheuil has never before, in English, been examined in detail. It was Monet's most productive period, for of the 350 pictures made in the 5 years, over 130 are now in the world's great galleries.
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