PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : MONET PB – Jackie Wullschlager

"*Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize and the Franco-British Society Literary Award* *Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize* A magnificent biography of the founder of Impressionism In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Behind this great and famous artist is a volatile, voracious, nervous yet reckless man, largely unknown. Jackie Wullschlager s enthralling biography, based on thousands of never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, is the first account of Monet s turbulent private life and how it determined his expressive, sensuous, sensational painting. Monet said he was driven wild with the need to put down what I experience . This rich and moving biography immerses us in that passionate experience, transforming our understanding of the man, his paintings and the fullness of his achievement."