Monet，a strong advocate of abandoning the studio and painting on the spott——sur le motif——was brilliantly successful in achieving the impression of a flesh view of nature，in fixing on his canvas the spontaneous and transient light and color of the moment，In the course ot a long career，his work went through many phases，but alway it was the impression on the viewer's eye，the visual sensation，that guided his brush。

Monet's life was not only long(1840—1 926)but eventful and enriched by friendships with many of the leading figurCs of the time，The text of this book is fascinating as a biographv and as a study of this great artist。

WHEN MONET GAVE THE TITLE Impression：Sunrise TO A painting he showed in the historic exhibition of 1874 in Paris，he unwittingly gave a name to the most important artistic phenomenon of the nine-teenth century and the first of the modern movements——Impression-ism。Monet was the most characteristic and the most influcntial of the Impressionists，who have long since outlived the mocking tone in which the critics first applied the label to them。

Monet，a strong advocate of abandoning the studio and painting on the spott——sur le motif——was brilliantly successful in achieving the impression of a flesh view of nature，in fixing on his canvas the spontaneous and transient light and color of the moment，In the course ot a long career，his work went through many phases，but alway it was the impression on the viewer's eye，the visual sensation，that guided his brush。

Monet's life was not only long(1840—1 926)but eventful and enriched by friendships with many of the leading figurCs of the time，The text of this book is fascinating as a biographv and as a study of this great artist。

The forty splendid colorplates，ranging in datc from 1865 to 1918，represent Monet in all the variety of his prolific genius。The commentaries，providing the art-historical background and analyz-ing the technique of each of the paintings，constitute a penetrating survey of the artist's development。

Claude Monet by William C.Seitz

COLORPLATES

LE DEJEUNER SUR L'HERBE Private Collection，Paris

WOMEN IN THE GARDEN The Louvre，Paris

TERRACE AT THE SEASIDE，SAINTE-ADRESSE The Metropolitan Museum of Art，New York

THE BEACH AT SAINTE-ADRESSE The Art Institute of Chicago

THE RIVER The Art Institute of Chicago

THE LUNCHEON Staedel Institute，Frankfurt am Main

LA GRENOUILLERE The Metropolitan Museum of Art，New York

ON THE BEACH，TROUVILLE(LA PLAGE DE TROUVILLE) The National Gallery，London

WESTMINSTER BRIDGE The National Gallery，London

IMPRESSION Musée Marmottan，Paris

BOULEVARD DES CAPUCINES Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum，Kansas City

WILD POPPIES The Louvre，Paris

THE BRIDGE AT ARGENTEUIL The Louvre，Paris

SNOW AT ARGENTEUIL Museum of Fine Arts，Boston

MADAME MONET AND CHILD Museum of Fine Arts，Boston

MADAME MONET IN JAPANESE COSTUME(LA JAPONAISE) Museum of Fine Arts，Boston

GARE SAINT-LAZARE The Fogg Art Museum，Harvard University，Cambridge

RUE MONTORGUEIL DECKED OUT WITH FLAGS Musée des Beaux-Arts，Rouen

SNOW EFFECT AT VETHEUIL The Louvre，Paris

THE BREAK-UP OF THE ICE Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation，Lisbon

SUNFLOWERS The Metropolitan Museum of Art，New York

THE CLIFF WALK The Art Institute of Chicago

THE CLIFF AT ETRETAT(LA MANNEPORTE) The Metrop olitan Museum of Art，New York

ROUGH SEA，ETRETAT(LA PORTE D'AVAL) Musée des Beaux-Arts，Lyon

CAP MARTIN，NEAR MENTON Museum of Fine Arts，Boston

POPPY FIELD NEAR GIVERNY Museum of Fine Arts，Boston

BOATS IN WINTER QUARTERS，ETRETAT The Art Institute of Chicago

LADY WITH A PARASOL The Louvre，Paris

ROCKS AT BELLE-ILE(THE NEEDLES OF PORT-COTON) Pushkin Museum，Moscow

BOATING ON THE RIVER EPTE Museu de Arte de Sāo Paulo

THE OLD FORT AT ANTIBES Museum of Fine Arts，Boston

THE ROCK(LE BLOC，CREUSE) Collection H.M.Queen Elizabeth，The Queen Mother

HAYSTACK AT SUNSET NEAR GIVERNY Museum of Fine Arts，Boston

THE FOUR POPLARS The Metropolitan Museum of Art，New York

ROUEN CATHEDRAL：THE FA(~ADE AT SUNSET Museum ofFine Arts，Boston

BRANCH OF THE SEINE NEAR GIVERNY Museum of Fine Arts，Boston

THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT National Gallery of Art，Washington，D.C.

WATER GARDEN AT GIVERNY The Louvre，Paris；on loan to the Musée de Caen

VENICE，PALAZZO DA MULA National Gallery ofArt，Washington，D.C.

WATER LILIES(NYMPHEAS) Collection unknown