Last night we sailed to Vernon and today we took an excursion to the village of Giverny to visit Oscar-Claude Monet’s house and garden. The famous impressionist artist lived in Giverny from 1883 till his death in 1926 and developed a magnificent garden that featured water lilies that were central to his most famous paintings. And for two oldies who are not overly into paintings his garden just blew us away. We could see exactly where he sat/stood to paint his famous waterlilies with the small Japanese bridge in the foreground. He ended up becoming blind through cataracts, however while he had limited sight he had the names of each of his paint colours written in large writing on every paint tube. That way he was able to continue to paint for some years. Speculation has it that his diminishing sight led to his lack of clear images and colours running together in his later paintings.
We hope you enjoy the following photos of his house and garden.
Now that is one place I will never forget. Awesome
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