Shop art print and framed art Potugese Woman by Robert Delaunay

"Tulip Fields in Holland" is a painting by the French artist Claude Monet, produced in 1886. It was painted in several versions during a trip to the tulip plantations in the Netherlands. It is part of the Musée d'Orsay collection in Paris. Claude Monet, the famous painter and father of Impressionism, rented a house with a large garden in Giverny in 1883 and lived there with his two sons, his second wife and the six daughters from his first marriage. For many years, he devoted his gardening career to building the place, digging ponds, building bridges, planting water lilies and flowers, including roses, irises, dahlias, wisteria and tulips, as well as researching and designing new plants. In the second half of the 1880s, Monet left the comfort of Giverny for more or less distant places on several creative trips, which gave rise to new paintings in his Giverny studio. Between 27 April and 6 May 1886, for example, he travelled to Holland. He had been invited by Baron Esturnel de Constant, secretary to the French embassy [fr] in The Hague and future winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The baron loved Monet's work and was also friends with Charles Dedon, a collector of his paintings. In a letter to the critic Théodore Duret, Monet wrote: "I came here at the invitation of a gentleman I didn't know, a friend of Dedon's, an admirer of my paintings, who wanted to show me crops, vast fields in full bloom; it's wonderful, but it drives the poor artist mad; it's all too much for our bad [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the abstract art style.

 

« Potugese Woman » is kept at Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain.

 

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