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MONET, Claude: The Breakup of the Ice at Lavacourt

🖼 The Breakup of the Ice at Lavacourt, 1880
Oil on canvas
46 × 82 cm

Crystalline fragments scatter across churning water as winter dissolves into spring, captured through Monet's luminous brushwork. This series pioneered his serial painting method, exploring how light transforms the same subject across changing seasons and atmospheric conditions.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Daniel Wildenstein
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