克劳德-莫奈的印象派技法至今仍激励着人们。无论是他令人惊艳的睡莲系列，还是风格迥异的《印象》、《日出》，在这本对莫奈的生活和作品的精彩探索中，你会发现是什么让莫奈成为法国19世纪的艺术大师。

Claude Monet’s Impressionist technique still inspires to this day. Whether it’s his stunning Water Lilies series, or genre-defining Impression, Sunrise, discover what made Monet the master of French 19th-century art in this exuberant exploration of his life and work

崇高的主宰

除了J. M. W. Turner，没有其他艺术家像克洛德·莫奈（Claude Monet（1840-1926））一样努力地在画布上捕捉光。在所有印象派画家中，塞尚称之为“只有一只眼睛，但我的天哪是一只眼睛！”他坚持绝对忠实于视觉感受的原则，直接从物体上绘画。 

可以说，莫奈重塑了色彩的可能性。无论是通过他早期对日本版画的兴趣，还是他在阿尔及利亚耀眼的灯光下作为一个征兵的时间，或者是他个人对十九世纪下旬主要画家的熟识，莫奈在其漫长的一生中创作的作品将永远改变我们对自然世界及其伴随现象的感知方式。他的创作高峰是在吉维尼（Giverny）自己的花园中绘制的一系列睡莲，这些睡莲几乎完全是无形态的，实际上是抽象艺术的起源。这本传记充分地介绍了这位艺术历史上非常杰出、极有影响力的艺术家，并提供了大量的复制品和存档照片以及详细而有见地的评论。 

作者 

丹尼尔-维尔登斯坦（1917-2001）是一位艺术史学家，也是巴黎美术学院的成员。自1939年起，他担任纽约、伦敦和东京威登斯坦画廊的总监。他编辑了一些国际期刊，如1956-1962年的《艺术》杂志和1963年后的《美术公报》。他于1970年共同创立了维尔登斯坦基金会（1984年改名为维尔登斯坦学院），是许多国际知名展览的主要推动者。丹尼尔-维尔登斯坦还编辑了18、19和20世纪各种艺术家的目录。他是世界印象派的*威，并出版了高更、马奈和莫奈的作品目录。 

Master of the Sublime

No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840–1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cézanne called “only an eye, but my God what an eye!” who stayed true to the principle of absolute fidelity to the visual sensation, painting directly from the object. 

It could be said that Monet reinvented the possibilities of color. Whether it was through his early interest in Japanese prints, his time as a conscript in the dazzling light of Algeria, or his personal acquaintance with the major painters of the late 19th century, the work Monet produced throughout his long life would change forever the way we perceive both the natural world and its attendant phenomena. The high point of his explorations was the late series of water lilies, painted in his own garden at Giverny, which, in their approach toward almost total formlessness, are really the origin of abstract art.

This biography does full justice to this most remarkable and profoundly influential artist, and offers numerous reproductions and archive photos alongside a detailed and insightful commentary.

The author

Daniel Wildenstein (1917-2001) was an art historian and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Paris). From 1939 onwards, he was Director of the Wildenstein Galleries of New York, London and Tokyo. He edited several international journals, e.g. the magazine Arts from 1956-1962 and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts after 1963. He co-founded the Fondation Wildenstein in 1970 (it was renamed the Wildenstein Institute in 1984), and was a prime mover in many exhibitions of international repute. Daniel Wildenstein also edited the catalogues raisonnés of various 18th, 19th and 20th century artists. He was a world authority on Impressionism, and published catalogues of the works of Gauguin, Manet and Monet.

Monet. The Triumph of Impressionism

Daniel Wildenstein 

Hardcover, 21 x 26 cm, 2.39 kg, 588 pages 

ISBN 978-3-8365-9083-9