Monet & Friends: An Obsession with Light

How many times can you paint the same haystack and still see something new?

the riverbanks of the Seine to his water garden at Giverny, Monet pursued something almost impossible to capture: the fleeting effects of light, weather and time. Alongside friends and fellow Impressionists Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley and Bazille, he helped transform landscape painting through outdoor observation, daring brushwork and an profound sensitivity to colour. Rose reveals the friendships, experiments and quiet obsessions behind some of the world’s most beloved paintings – and reminds us why Cézanne famously described Monet as “only an eye, but my God, what an eye!”