Honor Clerk

The force of nature that drove Claude Monet

A compulsion to paint en plein air would remain with the great Impressionist for life, as well as a questing need to find new ways to express what he saw and felt

‘Self-portrait with a beret’, by Claude Monet, 1886. [Bridgeman]

  • Monet: The Restless Vision

    Jackie Wullschläger

    Allen Lane, pp. 545, £35

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