Episode 7: Claude Monet's Rouen Cathedral Series (1892-94)
“I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that’s the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.”
(L) Monet, Rouen Cathedral Façade and Tour d'Albane (Morning Effect) (1894)
Oil on canvas. 41 3/4 in. (106.1 cm) x 29 1/8 in. (73.9 cm). Located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
(R) Monet, Rouen Cathedral, Façade (1894)
Oil on canvas. 39 5/8 in. (100.6 cm) x 26 in. (66 cm). Located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
(L) Monet, Rouen Cathedral Façade and Tour d'Albane (Morning Effect) (1894). Located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
(R) Monet, Rouen Cathedral, Façade (1894). Located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Music used:
The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen"
The Blue Dot Sessions, "The Spinnet", "Lahaina", "Discovery Harbor", "Santre"
Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees”
Tamar Avishai