A review by maxwelldemay
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King

5.0

2 / 4 : If you have time, read

[Growing old and blind, painter Claude Monet takes on the most ambitious set of works of his life]

As WWI rages, Monet lives in isolated comfort, far away from the days when he could hardly sell a single painting. From his food, to his family, to his painting, his stubbornness in these late days is his defining trait, and from his almost single-mindedness came his famous water lilies.

Not a particularly sympathetic character to root for, his friend Georges Clemenceau steals the show.

NON-FICTION