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unusual facts about Monet



Acquavella Galleries

Numerous exhibitions have been presented at the gallery, including the works of Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Bonnard, Tanguy, Léger, Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, Rauschenberg, Sisley, Feininger, Giacometti, and Miró.

Advisory Committee on Vice-Regal Appointments

The non-partisan committee consists of its chairperson—the Canadian Secretary to the Queen (presently Kevin MacLeod)—as well as two permanent federal delegates, one Anglophone (presently Robert Watt, citizenship judge and former Chief Herald of Canada) and one Francophone (presently Jacques Monet, constitutional scholar and member of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies); each serves for a time not exceeding six years.

Beach in Pourville

one of a series of oil-on-canvas works made by Monet that year in the small seaside resort of Pourville-sur-Mer (now part of the commune of Hautot-sur-Mer), near Dieppe in northern France.

Bridgette Monet

Monet achieved some mainstream attention when she appeared in the March 1984 issue of Playboy magazine, photographed by Playboy photographer Ken Marcus.

Cadmium sulfide

The general commercial availability of cadmium sulfide from the 1840s led to its adoption by artists, notably Van Gogh, Monet (in his London series and other works) and Matisse (Bathers by a river 1916–1919).

Daniella Monet

Monet landed a recurring role on the television series 8 Simple Rules as Missy Keinfield, Rory's love interest in the second season.

ESMoA

The Eva and Brian Sweeney Collection currently consists of about 500 works by artists such as Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Klimt, Khnopff, Alma-Tadema, Klee, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Cornell, Rauschenberg, Doig, Zach Houston, Warhol, Close and Estes.

Essential Monet

Essential Monet is a discussion book about the paintings of famed French artist Claude Monet.

Fondation Monet in Giverny

The majority of Monet's paintings are kept in the Musée Marmottan Monet.

Goffs School

Goffs School consists of six houses, each named after an influential person from history: Brontë, Churchill, Columbus, Curie, Mandela and Monet.

Montague Shearman

The Montague Shearman Collection contains such famous painters as Picasso, Dalí, Matisse, Utrillo, Sisley, Pissarro, Monet, Renoir, Lautrec, Rowlandson and many others.

MV Volcan de Tacande

After 7 December 1997, during operation between Calais - Dover, the SeaFrance Monet was laid up in Dunkerque.

In June 1996, the Stena Londoner was renamed SeaFrance Monet, registered to G.I.E. Versabil, Calais, France.

New Orleans Museum of Art

The museum is noted for its collection of European and American works, including works by Degas, Monet, Renoir, Picasso, Matisse, Pissarro, Rodin, Gauguin, Braque, Dufy, Miró, Jackson Pollock, Mary Cassatt, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

Petit Palais

The museum displays paintings by painters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Fragonard, Hubert Robert, Greuze and a remarkable collection of 19th-century painting and sculpture: Ingres, Géricault, Delacroix, Courbet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Cézanne, Modigliani, Carpeaux, Maillol, Rodin etc.

Pigeon intelligence

In a famous article in 1995, Watanabe, Sakamoto and Wakita described an experiment which showed that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between paintings by Picasso and Monet.

Robin Philipson

He explores the subject in a manner reminiscent of Monet's earlier studies of Rouen Cathedral, creating a sense of grandeur by expressing the verticality of the gothic architecture and by showing the patterns of coloured light coming from the stained-glass windows.

Stormy Sea in Étretat

The cliff that can be seen is that of Étretat (Seine Maritime), as Monet stayed in the city many times from the winter 1864-1865, and wrote: "I spend my time outdoors on the stone when it's big time ... and of course I work all the time."

Theodore Pitcairn

Thomas Hoving, former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, described meeting the Reverend Pitcairn in the course of negotiating the purchase of Garden at Sainte-Adresse by Claude Monet.

Victorious 3.0: Even More Music from the Hit TV Show

Monet also announced that there would be a "Walmart Exclusive ZinePak" with two bonus tracks and the bonus tracks are: "Cheer Me Up" by Victoria Justice, which was partly performed in the Season 3 episode, Tori Goes Platinum; and "365 Days" by Leon Thomas III, which was also partly performed in the Season 2 episode, Jade Gets Crushed.


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