Sunset Painting Claude Monet Size:40"x20" Scattered splashes and dripping runs

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

still and golden and softly alive

The bloom floats against a moody backdrop of deep slate-blue and smoky grey

A glowing close to the day

cold clear mornings and long walks above the tree line

Sunset Painting Claude Monet Size:40"x20" Scattered splashes and dripping runsThis 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