Tuesday, December 11, 2012

   
        
Claude Monet,
"The Magpie"
1869  

 “This painting of a place in the countryside near Etretat, executed on the spot, uses very unusual pale, luminous colours.  The novelty and daring of Monet's approach explain the painting's rejection by the jury of the 1869 salon.”
Musee d’Orsay
Paris, France