Parliament's towers loom through river fog and fire light

The silhouette of the Houses of Parliament rises in dark blue-grey against a hazy sky streaked with orange, as if a low sun is breaking through fog. The Thames below is rendered in soft blue-green and lavender, with two small sailing boats as dark silhouettes on the water. Signed and dated lower left.

Claude Monet (1840–1926) gave Impressionism its name and its longest career. From the 1870s he painted outdoors in the Seine valley and on the Normandy coast, pursuing the changing light of a single motif in series — haystacks, poplars, Rouen Cathedral, the Thames — and from 1890 the garden he built at Giverny, whose water lilies occupied his last twenty-five years. His paintings are held by the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Marmottan Monet, the National Gallery in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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