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What is Claude Monet's best painting?

by YPB Team

A harbour at dawn, a pond painted for thirty years, a dying wife, a railway shed full of steam. One painter, and no two of these mean the same thing.

  1. Water Lilies — ranked #11
    Water Lilies
    The pond at Giverny, painted across roughly 250 canvases in his last three decades.
    1000pts
  2. Bordighera — ranked #22
    Bordighera
    An 1884 Italian riviera landscape in colours he called impossible to send home.
    952pts
  3. La Gare Saint-Lazare — ranked #33
    La Gare Saint-Lazare
    Steam and iron inside the Paris terminus, 1877.
    762pts
  4. Woman with a Parasol — ranked #44
    Woman with a Parasol
    His wife Camille and son Jean on a windy hillside at Argenteuil, 1875.
    659pts
  5. Rouen Cathedral, West Facade — ranked #55
    Rouen Cathedral, West Facade
    One of about thirty canvases of the same facade at different hours.
    659pts
  6. Impression, Sunrise — ranked #66
    Impression, Sunrise
    The 1872 harbour scene at Le Havre that gave Impressionism its name.
    571pts
  7. Camille on Her Deathbed — ranked #77
    Camille on Her Deathbed
    His first wife, painted as she died in 1879.
    571pts
  8. Garden at Sainte-Adresse — ranked #88
    Garden at Sainte-Adresse
    An 1867 terrace by the sea, flags snapping, painted before Impressionism had a name.
    467pts
  9. The Magpie — ranked #99
    The Magpie
    An 1869 snow scene rejected by the Salon and now among his most loved.
    467pts
  10. The Cliff Walk at Pourville — ranked #1010
    The Cliff Walk at Pourville
    Two figures on a Normandy clifftop, 1882.
    467pts
  11. The Japanese Footbridge — ranked #1111
    The Japanese Footbridge
    The green bridge over the lily pond at Giverny.
    343pts
  12. Meules (Haystacks) — ranked #1212
    Meules (Haystacks)
    Grain stacks in a neighbour's field, painted about twenty-five times.
    343pts
  13. Houses of Parliament, London — ranked #1313
    Houses of Parliament, London
    Westminster dissolving in Thames fog across a series painted from a hotel balcony.
    343pts
  14. The Poplars — ranked #1414
    The Poplars
    A row of trees on the Epte that Monet bought outright to stop them being felled.
    0pts
  15. The Luncheon on the Grass — ranked #1515
    The Luncheon on the Grass
    His huge, partly destroyed answer to Manet, begun in 1865.
    0pts

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Comments

He had cataract surgery in 1923, saw colour differently afterwards, and destroyed canvases painted before the operation. His work sorted against itself: https://youpick.best/articles/monet-ranked-many-ways

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