For all his airs of being an amiable old cove, Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) seethed with the spirit of adventure, and even with those arthritic green fingers of his old age, he always wielded a rebellious and bold brush.
For all his airs of being an amiable old cove, Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) seethed with the spirit of adventure, and even with those arthritic green fingers of his old age, he always wielded a rebellious and bold brush. At a stroke he, along with his band of buddies, overturned the apple cart of art history.