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Bettmann via Getty Images Claude Monet’s Charing Cross Bridge, once owned by Winston Churchill, captures the smoggy yellow haze over London’s River Thames with the shadowy Houses of ...
It was a subject the artist would paint nearly 300 times over three decades, including the monumental set of eight panels on ...
The newly restored Charing Cross Bridge is being unveiled in the Courtauld Gallery’s ambitious exhibition Monet and London: Views of the Thames (27 September-19 January 2025). On display will be ...
Turner's 1830-35 painting The Thames Above Waterloo Bridge, which glimpses the city from a similar vantage to Monet's Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect, 1900, illustrates the divergence.
Between 1899 and 1901, Monet painted nearly 100 views of London, mesmerised not by its architecture or people, but by its atmosphere – more precisely, by its pollution. His canvases depict the city ...
Everyday modern life is depicted in Monet’s studies of Charing Cross Bridge, a railway often populated by a passing train billowing clouds of steam. Serres praised how in these paintings Monet ...
There’s no land more extraordinary for a painter.” Monet’s fifth-floor suite looked west towards the wrought-iron Charing Cross Bridge that carried trains across the river, and east to ...
The exhibit, which was organized by Chief Curator Kevin Tervala, includes a series of artworks likely to stop visitors in their tracks — such as Monet’s “Waterloo Bridge (Sunlight Effects ...
The Thames appears by turns sage, turquoise, salmon-pink. Monet’s Charing Cross Bridge, The Thames, 1903 Despite such retina-pleasing prettiness, there’s a strangeness and modernity to these ...
Charing Cross Bridge, Fog on the Thames (1903) recalls Monet’s breakthrough work Impression, Sunrise (1872), the painting that gave its name to Impressionism, with its slashes of tingling orange ...