Pursuing our passions for art in coins, we are thrilled to reveal another world-renowned painter as the 2nd issue in the Masters of Art series, Claude Monet. Claude Monet is recognized as one of the founders of French Impressionist painting.
He embraced the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, particularly in landscape painting.
Being particularly fond of the water lilies growing in the pond of his garden in Giverny, Monet composed roughly 250 individual paintings until the end of his life.
The painting in the background of Claude’s self-portrait is on view in all its splendour at the Musee Marmottan Monet in Paris.