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This is my favorite painting

Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)
Venice, Palazzo Dario, 1908
Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 31 in. (64.8 x 78.8 cm)
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection, 1933.446
Currently not on display

I love this painting because of the feeling and wimsical rhythm it connotes. The yellow/green light resembles the real light of the Grand Canal. I also like the composition showing only part of the buildings leaving the tops to the viewers imagination.

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