Claude Monet "Waterlilies" biography about Monet and his life and his early works and his mentors and teachers.

Claude Monet was born November 14, 1840 in rue Laffite, Paris. His family moved to Le Harve in 1845, where Monet's father entered a business venture with his brother in law. Monet began school in 1951 where he began to learn drawing from Francois-Charles Orchard. Early on, he had a dislike for formal education, and began to draw caricatures for the townspeople of Le Harve. As a teenager, he made a nice living selling the caricatures and some of …

…partial sight is restored in Monet's eye he continues to work on the Water Lilies murals. The murals were to be placed in the Orangerie, in an elliptical room large enough for the nineteen panels. He missed all of his deadlines for the work almost abandoned his project all together. Monet was diagnosed with pulmonary sclerosis in the beginning of 1926. He died on December 5, 1926. His Water Lilies murals were officially dedicated to the Orangerie May 27, 1927.