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Bordighera

Bright landscape painting featuring spindly trees with lush leaves surrounded by light-green foliage, a small town visible between the trees at center, and a calm blue sea in the background.
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  • Bright landscape painting featuring spindly trees with lush leaves surrounded by light-green foliage, a small town visible between the trees at center, and a calm blue sea in the background.

Date:

1884

Artist:

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

About this artwork

Early in 1884 Claude Monet traveled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera near the border between Italy and France, for a working visit of three weeks that turned into nearly three months. In a letter to sculptor Auguste Rodin describing his efforts to capture the brilliant Mediterranean light, Monet declared that he was “fencing, wrestling, with the sun.” In other letters he complained of the impossibility of finding a suitable subject amid the region’s abundant vegetation. In this sun-drenched composition painted from a hilltop vantage point, the sea is barely visible through the interlaced trunks of local pine trees.

Status

On View, Gallery 240

Department

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist

Claude Monet

Title

Bordighera

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1884

Medium

Oil on canvas

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower left: Claude Monet 84

Dimensions

65 × 80.8 cm (25 5/8 × 31 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Potter Palmer Collection

Reference Number

1922.426

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