The Everyday Lives of the French Impressionists

  >>>>     MONET Immersive on Wall Street NYC I had never seen one of the artist's immersive presentations before and, having written a deeply researched novel CLAUDE & CAMILLE: A NOVE...

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  It has been a very lovely journey since the debut of my novel CLAUDE AND CAMILLE about Monet when he was young and struggling to sell his first paintings and sustain himself, his impressioni...

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It has been a few years since I posted here, but CLAUDE & CAMILLE: A NOVEL OF MONET keeps selling here and in translation, particularly Germany and Italy. April marked ten years since publication...

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I have long wanted to own and read the diary of Julie Manet, Berthe Morisot's only daughter (Berthe married Edouard Manet's brother), but it has been out of print and selling for a great dea...

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BOOKPAGE: "Cowell presents a vivid portrait of Monet’s remarkable career." SUSAN VREELAND: "Read it with a book of Monet's paintings by your side, and be prepared to marvel, and to weep." ...

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A new novel has just been been published about Mary Cassatt and Degas to terrific reviews. Travel back to Paris in the days of the Impressionists! The author is the much acclaimed Robin Oliveir...

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There's a current exhibition about Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity at the Metropolitan Museum which features Monet's ORIGINAL PAINTING OF CAMILLE IN HER GREEN DRESS. I have never seen it...

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Please do browse some of the seventy lovingly researched mini-posts in this blog, each about different tiny parts of the lives of the impressionists including Renoir painting Richard Wagner, Bert...

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Apologies! I have not had time to update this site for rather a while, but please do look at all the old posts as they are all relevant and interesting and sometimes unknown aspects of those gi...

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One of the frequent reports of life among the young painters who would be one day called the Impressionists are the letters sent home to his mother and father by Monet's best friend, the painte...

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I arrived at the Clark Museum to speak about my novel the week after they took down their exquisite exhibit Pissarro's People, but I did get a copy of the excellent exhibition book. I was partic...

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The painter Turner, it is said, had himself tied to a mast to observe the violence of a storm at sea. Monet had his own near disaster. Standing on a rock to paint and very involved, he was su...

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The Clark Museum in Williamstown Mass. is hosting a Pissarro exhibition through October 2nd...and sadly I won't see it, because I am not speaking there on my Monet novel until October 9th. I lo...

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I am always surprised and delighted at how many things one can discover on the web, and the other day I came across a Facebook page for this documentary about Monet's food and gardens and painti...

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A recent article in the Guardian has declared that Monet's second wife, Alice, destroyed all of the personal papers of Monet's first wife and muse, the lovely Camille, who died at the age of 32 ...

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Auguste Renoir would have been 170 years old this coming February 25th, having been born in 1841. His father was a tailor and as a boy he slept on the tailor's bench, sometimes being stuck by t...

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Corot taught the young Berthe Morisot and in the 1860s introduced her to plein air painting. I have always loved his work, and indeed he greatly influenced the young Berthe's style. He was by ...

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Almost everyone who has journeyed to the master's house in Giverny comes away with a vision not only of the flower gardens but the glorious yellow dining room. We imagine ourselves invited to e...

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The Van Gogh novels I have read so far are: LUST FOR LIFE by Irving Stone (1934) which portrays his whole artistic life until his death at 37; SUNFLOWERS by Sheramy Bundrick (2009), the last...

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Oh the scandal! In 1863 Napoleon III instituted a Salon des Refusés where the painters who had been refused a place in the regular annual Salon could hang their work. Taking advantage of this w...

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It is rather odd for me to think of Renoir loving Wagner's music though other people may think differently! Renoir was about 42 when he traveled to Palermo to paint the composer who was there fi...

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Finally! MONET AND HIS MUSE: CAMILLE MONET IN THE ARTIST's LIFE is available on Amazon. I have been waiting a long time for this critical study by esteemed clinical psychologist and art histori...

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The beautiful and exquisitely talented Berthe Morisot had already been widowed for some time and was raising her only daughter Julie with the help of friends. Julie was only seventeen when her ...

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Here is the young Renoir curled up in a chair in his good pal Frederic Bazille's studio. One of the reasons I was compelled to write Claude and Camille: a novel of Monet was my fascination for ...

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I am only allowed in this generous blogspot to post in one image per each blog. I did find a treasure trove of personal things Renoir left behind listed in Hantmann's Auctioneers and appraisers....

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