The twenty magnificent paintings by Claude Monet housed in the Hermitage, Leningrad, and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, provide a good idea of the artist's development from the beginning of his career in the 1860s to its final period during the early years of the twentieth century. All the canvases are reproduced in this book in full colour. In addition, there are 50 details which serve to reveal the amazing colouristic richness of the artist's palette.
Together with paintings hav...