"Gardener's House at Antibes", Claude Monet

Monet painted this view of a gardener´s house during a five-month stay at Antibes in southern France. Under the Mediterranean sun his colors became lighter, his paint surfaces more thickly impastoed. What I bring back from here, he wrote, will be sweetness itself, white, pink, and blue, all enveloped in a magical air. The strong colors and heavy paint surfaces seem drenched in intense light and heat of the Mediterranean coast."fun_fact": "Monet painted 35 canvases during his visit to Antibes fro