Claude Monet: Great Lives in Graphic Form (Biographic) - Classics Hardcover Edition

Discover the fascinating life and artistic legacy of Claude Monet with Biographic: Monet, an engaging visual biography from the innovative Great Lives in Graphic Form series. Combining fascinating facts, timelines, maps and infographics, this book offers a fresh and entertaining way to explore the artist behind some of the world''s most recognisable paintings.

Claude Monet was a pioneering French Impressionist and celebrated master of landscapes, best known for works including Impression, Sunrise and Water Lilies. His distinctive approach to light, colour and changing landscapes helped shape the Impressionist movement and left a lasting mark on the art world.

But there is much more to Monet than his famous paintings.

Biographic: Monet presents 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements from his life and career in vivid visual snapshots. Discover that Monet created the ponds that inspired his famous Water Lilies paintings and produced around 250 oils depicting them. One of his paintings, Water Lily Pond, later sold for $80.4 million, while Cliffs Near Dieppe was famously stolen not once, but twice.

The book also explores Monet''s later years, including the remarkable fact that he was almost blind when he created some of his most celebrated works.