Monet at Vétheuil: The Turning Point

Presents three essays and 12 color plates published to accompany a 1998 exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. The exhibition and text focus on the period of Monet's career which he spent at Vetheuil, a small town along the Seine, from 1878 to 1881. The essays examine: love, money, and Monet's debacle paintings of 1880; the site and subject of Monet's Vetheuil paintings; and the marketing of Monet in the context of the exhibition at La Vie Moderne. Contains a number of b&w drawings and a few color reproductions in addition to the color plates. Includes extensive notes and a bibliography, but no subject index. Distributed by U. of Washington Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.