Sunset Painting Claude Monet Size:40"x20" A wide alpine view that

A wide alpine view that carries the warmth of high-country summer indoors

comforting innocence

Scattered splashes and dripping runs of gold trail down from the body

cold clear mornings and long walks above the tree line

Slender trunks rise on either side

Sunset Painting Claude Monet Size:40"x20" A wide alpine view thatThis wide impressionist study, in the manner of Claude Monet, looks out across a tranquil water lily pond at the close of day. Soft mauve and rose light gathers in the upper distance, where the setting sun dissolves into the misty surface of the water with no hard edge to mark sky from pond. A vivid clump of golden green reeds and grasses blazes at the centre, dabbed in quick strokes of yellow, ochre and emerald, while floating lily pads drift across