Today in History
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Today in History |
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November 14, 1840 |
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The French Impressionist painter Claude Monet was born on this day in 1840. Monet's painting Impression, Sunrise, gave the Impressionist movement its name. His series of more than 250 paintings of waterlilies may be his most famous work. Monet revised many of those paintings after surgery for cataracts enhanced his vision to see higher into the range of ultraviolet light waves, causing his vision to take on a blue tint. Throughout his life, Monet had suffered through periods of great financial difficulty, but had gradually regained his footing and died in relative financial comfort at the age of 86. In 2008, one of his Waterlilies sold for more than $80 million.
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