Claude Monet Painting at the Edge of a Wood
by SARGENT, John Singer, Oil on canvas, 53 x 64 cm
In 1885-86, Sargent painted the works that marked his brief but intense Impressionist phase. However, it was not till he visited Monet at Giverny in 1887 that he embraced Impressionism more completely. His picture Claude Monet Painting at the Edge of a Wood records that visit. In this painting, the outlines have become blurred and the brushwork, rather than establishing a perspective three-dimensionality, embeds the figures in a dissolving fabric of colour tonalities.