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One hundred years after his death on December 5, 1926, Monet is no longer seen merely as the “master of Impressionism,” and no one today would think to refer to his final series of *Water Lilies*, on view at the Musée de l’Orangerie, the “Sistine Chapel of Impressionism,” as André Masson put it in 1952. Admittedly, the group of painters who exhibited together in photographer Nadar’s studio in 1874 chose the term “Impressionist”—a term coined ironically by the critic Louis Leroy, borrowed from *Impression, soleil levant* (Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet – Académie des Beaux-Arts) to name this movement, which never had either a written doctrine or a closed circle of followers. Another side of Monet now seems to have come to the forefront: the artist who, in his garden in Giverny—preserved today thanks to the Academy of Fine Arts, to which it was bequeathed—pioneered a form of land art ahead of its time, designing and planting his Japanese-inspired pond, and who, in his final studio—bathed in overhead light, with no real landscape before his eyes—conceived those “grand decorations” that he offered to France, through his friend Clemenceau, to celebrate the victory of 1918. Monet, fighting with his brushes in his imaginary trench, brought about a revolution that was perhaps more significant for the 20th century than Impressionism had been: he conceived a self-contained world of pure painting, a space in which to move—where the “viewer” is no longer standing before a framed and hung painting, but is immersed in the painting itself— a long, vibrant surface that, after World War II, spoke to the American Abstract Expressionists, from Pollock to Rothko. The centennial of Monet’s death is also the story of this succession of perspectives on the work of an artist who never ceased to reinvent himself. Adrien Goetz
Timbre-poste (mixte) : création Elsa Catelin d'après l'oeuvre "Autoportrait coiffé d'un béret" de Claude Monet © Collection privée ; Roy Fox Fine Art Photography. Typographie : Mariela Monsalve et Angelina Sanchez. Document Philatélique : mise en page Elsa Catelin d'après l'oeuvre "Autoportrait coiffé d'un béret" de Claude Monet © Collection privée ; Roy Fox Fine Art Photography. Cachet d'oblitération : mise en page Elsa Catelin d'après la signature de Claude Monet Texte : Adrien Goetz
Commercialisation start date
November 9, 2026
Commercialisation end date
November 30, 2027
Adherence type
None
Printing technique
Offset
Number per sheet
1
Permanent value
Face value
-
Philatelic charter family
Philatelic program stamp
Official release date
November 9, 2026
Stamp format
210 x 297 mm
author
CATELIN Elsa
Product number
2126554
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