During the last two years of the war Monet makes a number of paintings of the weeping willows around his pond, relying on their traditional images as symbols of mourning and sorrow to express his own grief at the state of the world.
Claude Monet
Weeping willow 1918-19
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Gift of Michel Monet, 1966 (inv. 5081)
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris,
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