Claude Monet Facts | Facts about Claude Monets

How did Impressionism get its name?

Impressionism got its name from Claude Monet's painting "Impression, Sunrise," after a critic used the title to mock the style.

Claude Monet painted water lilies in the garden he created at his home in Giverny, France.

Claude Monet made about 250 paintings of water lilies.

Cataracts changed how Claude Monet saw colors, and his later paintings became redder and blurrier.

Claude Monet painted series of the same subject in different light, like haystacks and Rouen Cathedral.

Claude Monet donated his giant water lily murals to France as a monument to peace after World War I.

A painting from Claude Monet's haystack series sold for about $110.7 million in 2019.

Claude Monet painted en plein air, meaning outdoors.

Claude Monet collected Japanese prints and built a Japanese-style bridge in his garden.

Claude Monet lived to age 86 and died in 1926.