1920

Despite increasing difficulty with his eyesight, Monet continues with the large canvases of his watergarden. He outlines his method of overcoming the deficiencies of his vision to Thiébault-Sisson. "If I have regained my sense of colour in the large canvases I have just shown you, it is because I have adapted my working methods to my eyesight and because most of the time I have laid down the colour haphazardly, on the one hand trusting solely to the labels on my tubes of paint and, on the other, to force of habit, to the way in which I have always laid out my materials on my palette".

Claude Monet
Wisteria 1919-20
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Gift of Michel Monet, 1966 (inv. 5124)
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris,
© Bridgeman-Giraudon / Presse