Claude Monet | Original Prints & Etchings

Claude Monet (1840–1926) is the central figure of French Impressionism — the painter whose sustained investigation of light, atmosphere, and the act of seeing itself transformed the course of Western art. His water lily series, his haystacks, his Rouen Cathedral façades painted at different hours of the same day: these are among the most studied and beloved works in art history, held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Museum of Modern Art.

The works available through Creed Gallery represent a specific and historically significant aspect of Monet's output — the graphic works produced during his Antibes period of 1888–1892, when he travelled to the French Riviera to paint the Mediterranean light he described as wrestling with the sun. The sanguine etchings produced by Auguste Marie Lauzet for the publication L'Art impressionniste d'après la collection de M. Durand-Ruel are among the rarest graphic documents of Monet's work from this period — original nineteenth-century impressions on laid paper, carrying the warmth and crystalline clarity of the Riviera light in a format that private collectors can actually own.

Monet's major oil paintings are beyond the reach of virtually all private collections. These graphic works represent one of the very few categories in which a documented, historically significant Monet can be acquired. Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London. Private viewings by appointment.