After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated…

Jerry Saltz
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After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. ✨ New York Volume 43, Issues 14-21, New York Magazine Company, p. 1, 2010.
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