Monet rose before dawn to chase first light. He once said "I would like to paint as the bird sings."

The Seine at Petit-Gennevilliers - 1872 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/7805

Portrait of a Lady https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28462

Painting https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/painting-3

Basket of Graphes, Quinces and Pears - 1882/1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10062

Self-Portrait (in distress) 1919 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25783

Palazzo Dario - 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11024

Road to Giverny in Winter - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10080

Cliffs near Dieppe - 1882 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9730

Water Lilies - 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11080

Vétheuil - 1902 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110338

At London’s Savoy Hotel, Monet painted dozens of canvases at once, sprinting between them as fog and light shifted over the Thames. A witness said: “He ran from one canvas to another, in a frenzy, trying to capture the fugitive effects of light before they vanished.”

View of the Church at Vernon - 1883 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9949

Cliff near Fecamp - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9564

Animals in an Enclosure https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1569/

Mount Kolsaas - 1895 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10602

The Water Lily Pond, green reflections - 1920/1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110542

The Four Trees - 1891 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/104851

Water Lilies (Fragment) ~1890/1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110555

Water Lilies - 1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10994

Three Trees in Grey Weather - 1891 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10479

Standing Indian Chief - 1901 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3105348

The Garden Gate - 1881 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9586

Monet once confessed he could never finish a painting, “I stop when I’m tired.” Each canvas was a moment, not a conclusion.

Poplars, Wind Effect - 1891 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10475

The Coastguard Cabin at Varengeville - 1897 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10727

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4930

Water lilies - 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110479

The Portrait of Hermine Gallia (1904) marks Klimt's shift away from shock value and toward the perfection of the "dream-state." By blurring the lines between the floor and the atmosphere, Klimt places Hermine in a liminal space between reality and dreamworld.

Vetheuil, Paysage - 1879 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9285

Waterloo Bridge - 1902 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110606

Two Women in a Boat - 1887 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110187

The Aiguille and the Porte d'Aval seen upstream - 1885/1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110138

Monet despised theory and trusted the eye alone. “All I did,” he said, “was look at what nature showed me.” Seeing was enough.

The banks of the Zaan - 1871 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109800

Lilacs, Grey Weather - 1872 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/8208

Two Men Fishing - 1883 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/1180849

Untitled, 1980 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/4994

The Aiguille seen through the Porte d'Aval - 1886 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110142

The Greedy https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/28763

Sunset in Étretat - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110120

When Camille, Monet’s first wife, died in 1879, he painted her on her deathbed. It’s not polished — it’s raw grief on canvas. Art historians have called it one of the most intimate and honest paintings of loss in art history.

Celebes http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/ernst-celebes-t01988

The Seine in Argenteuil - 1877 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109876

Irises - 1914/1917 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11125

San Giorgio Maggiore - 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/11035

The Banks of the River Epte in Springtime - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10084

Vétheuil in Summer - 1880 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/103225

Morning at Etretat - 1883 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9876

Peonies - 1887 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3110183