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Produced in association with the Musee Marmottan Monet, this beautifully illustrated book looks at the life and work of the leading light in the Impressionist movement. Augmented by the inclusion of circa a dozen facsimile documents, selected from Monet's personal archives, this book highlights the influences on his work, shows how he developed series of paintings that reflected the world around him and gives an insight into his personal interests. The documents include sketches and preliminary drawings, letters, marriage registrations, and postcards.

The Treasures of Monet

Introduction; 1. Beginnings: 1840-62; 2. Early Influences: 1858-62; 3. Monet's Paris; Salon Success; Paradise Regained; Figures in a Landscape; Painting in the Open Air; Painting at La Grenouillere; "From Today Painting is Dead"; Exile and Homecoming; In Argenteuil: Nature and Artistic Progress; The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874; The Later Impressionist Exhibitions; The Gare St Lazare; Life Changes; Vetheuil: A Turning Point; The 1880s: New Subjects, New Markets; Pursuing New Subjects; The First Series Paintings; Evoking "Mystery": The Mornings on the Seine Paintings; Rouen Cathedral; Painting Extremes of Climate; London; The Garden as a Work of Art; The Water Lilies: Water and Reflections; Monet in Venice; Monet in the Twentieth Century; The Water Lilies at the Orangerie; The Heritage: Abstract Expressionism.