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Retired and enjoying my free time to paint. I love the French Impressionism era. Monet, Renoir, Bazille and Manet are some of my favorites.

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Claude Monet

Poppy Fields near Argenteuil, 1875
Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC
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This work is one of four similar views of the plain of Gennevilliers, just southeast of Argenteuil, which Monet executed in summer 1875.  He first painted the subject two years earlier in the celebrated Poppies near Argenteuil (Musee d'Orsay, Paris).

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