“One of the early portraits of Monet, written by Renoir and donated to the artist, presumably in 1872, was kept for many years in the family of Monet and only in 1966 was transferred by the artist’s son to the Marmotten Museum in Paris. His name is” Monet Reading. “
This is a double portrait for the portrait of the artist’s wife Camilla. Close-up Renoir wrote Monet’s massive head, sitting on a chair or in a chair, an arm holding white newspaper strips. Monet smokes a straight pipe, and smoke with gray rings fills the upper right corner of the picture. Light falls from behind Claude Monet’s back and illuminates a newspaper page, a round dark hat, a frock coat, a white edge coming out from under a shirt sleeve, a strong hand, and also stains on the artist’s face.
In this case, the apparent randomness of the compositional decision emphasizes the psychological depth of the portrait image, its character and strong temperament. “
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