Our favorite Giverny related books
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Monet's Garden through the Seasons at Giverny, Vivian Russell,
Rd. Frances Lincoln 1995 - 168 p.
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An accurate description of the works of Giverny's gardeners illustrated by
beautiful photographs.
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Monet's Passion, Ideas, Inspiration and Insights from the Painter's
Garden, Elizabeth Murray, Ed. Pomegranate - 1989, 115 p.
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Elizabeth Murray spent one year gardening in Giverny. In this book she shares
her experience and teaches us how to create an impressionist garden
in the third chapter "Bringing Giverny Home : Ideas from Monet's Garden".
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Monet's House : An Impressionist Interior, Heide Michels-Guy
Bouchet-Helen Ivor, Ed. Clarkson Potter - 1997, 144 p.
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A virtual room-by-room guided tour of the Monet's beautiful home at Giverny,
a vivid impression of daily life in the beloved house where the artist lived
for 40 years with his second wife and their eight children. Each room
is explored in its own chapter with glorious color photos : the dining
room, painted in two shades of yellow and adorned with Japanese
prints; the blue-and-white-tiled kitchen; the blue drawing room;
the studio as it appeared in its heyday. Enlarged paint swatches of
Monet's unique color combinations accompany each chapter so that the readers
can reproduce them in their own homes.
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The Taste of Giverny : At Home with Monet and the American
Impressionists, Claire Joyes.
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Giverny everyday life by the time of Claude Monet and the American painters
colony in Giverny. This book presents very nice pictures and paintings of
Giverny houses and landscapes. It also gives some recipes extracted from
"Monet's Table", an other book by Claire Joyces presented below.
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Latest Giverny related books
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Monet's Years at Giverny : Beyond Impressionism, Daniel Wildenstein
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The last book of Daniel Wildenstein, The number One Expert of Claude Monet.
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The Gardens at Giverny : A view of Monet's World, Stephen Shore
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Very nice photos of Claude Monet's garden and introductions by Daniel Wildenstein
and Gérald Van der Kemp, the rebuilder of Monet's house.
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Out of print Giverny related books
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The Garden of Claude MONET The Four Seasons of Giverny
Charles Prost, Ed. Casterman - 1993, 117 p.
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The garden and the pond photographed with much sensibility. Less flowers
close-up than an atmosphear. Charles Prost went every monday at Giverny all
around a year. The book gives an image of the garden as visitors never see
it, without any people, during the winter, etc...
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Monet, late paintings of Giverny from the musée
Marmottan, essays by Lynn Federle Orr, Paul Hayes Tucker, Elizabeth
Murray Ed. Abrams - 1994, 88 p.
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The catalogue of an exhibition from paintings of the Musée Marmottan
throughout the USA. At the end of his life Monet suffered from
cataract. His deteriorating eyesight led him to produce works
celebrating color and forms at the expense of objective reality, anticipating
later aspects of modernism.
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