Claude MonetFrance, 1840–1926Bordighera
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About the painting
Les Villas à Bordighera est un des deux tableaux sur ce sujet réalisés par le peintre impressionniste Claude Monet en 1884.
Peint sur le motif à Bordighera, il représente les habitations et les arbres de la côte de la Riviera ligure; il est conservé à l'Art Institute of Chicago.
In the museum's words
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.
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Pendant ce temps, chez Claude Monet
La vie entièredécembre 1881 – avril 1883 · Résidence
Villa Saint-Louis
1883
First major retrospective
In the year of his move to Giverny, Monet's first large retrospective exhibition took place.
December 1883
Riviera trip with Renoir
Monet and Renoir took a short painting trip by train along the Italian Riviera as far as Genoa; on the way back they stopped at L'Estaque to see Cézanne. On this trip Monet discovered Bordighera.
1883–1926 · Lieu de travail
Giverny
18 January – 5 April 1884
Three months in Bordighera
Instead of the planned three weeks, Monet spent almost three months in the Ligurian town of Bordighera and painted 38 pictures. He called the town a magical, fairy-tale land; on the way back he stopped in Menton.
