At Monets funeral in 1926 his four pallbeaers were an ex-Prime Minister of France, Georges Clemenceau, and the artists Bonnard, Vuillard,and Roussel. Monet at his death had an international reputation, the result of nearly seven decades of almost uninterrupted production,and his oeuvre is one of the largest of any artist. Then he began painting, around 1858,Delacroix and Ingres were still dominant figures in French artisticlife;when he ceased, Cubism was already going out of fashion.

Monet's principal claim to fame rests upon his role as a founder of Impressionism, and during the late 1870s, his pictures were in the forefront of avant-grade art. He also created further shockwaves of modernity in the 1890s with his paintings in series, which had a profound effect upon Kandinsky and others. Inthe last decade of his long life he once more produced a novel vision, this time with semi-abstract,dazzlingly free depictions of waterlilies. Few artists have had such a sustained innovative influence as Monet.

FRONT COVER:The Garden, Giverny, 1902.

BACKCOVER:Vase of Chrysanthemums,1880.

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Frank Milner is Education Officer for the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool,England. He was born in Scotland and received his education at the Universities of Liverpool and Durham, and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. He has contributed to various arts journals and his publications for the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside includ The Pre-Raphaelites(1987),George Stubbs(1989),and Turner(1990).Other publications include introducations to the work of Degas(1990)and that of Van Gogh(1991).