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Friday, June 8, 2012

Monet Too Tired to Paint the Thames At Night


Count Harry Kessler drops by Monet’s studio in Giverny and asks the Master if he has ever considered painting the Thames by night. “Yes, but one is too tired when one has painted all day,” Monet tells him. “And then it would be difficult without imitating Whistler.”
From Diary of an Aesthete in The New Yorker
Posted by Tom Groenfeldt at 7:31 PM
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