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La Debacle a Vetheuil - Claude Monet - Oil Painting Wall Decor suits both traditional and modern interiors. As a fine art oil painting, it works as a standalone focal point or as part of a bedroom gallery wall, and unlike a print it is genuinely hand painted in oils.
1880
Oil on canvas
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Spain.
La Débacle à Vétheuil is one of the nearly twenty paintings of the ice floes that Monet did. This painting comes from the Fundación Collección Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid.
Monet painted La Débacle à Vétheuil at a time when he was very poor and almost broke. He lived in a joint household with another family, the Hoschedés. There were not very many patrons of Monet's work because the people who liked to buy his paintings at this time liked still lifes. Monet preferred landscapes and painted very few still lifes. Monet was not selling enough paintings, until his one man show at a gallery in the office of the magazine La Vie Moderne turned his career around. By the end of his life he was very well known--a French national icon--and also very rich.
La Débacle à Vétheuil is basically "The Breakup of the Ice at Vétheuil." The Seine River flows through Vétheuil, and during the terrible winter of 1879 the Seine froze. In early January 1880 the ice broke up and started rushing down the river, clearing whatever was in its path, with tremendous sound. Monet was amazed at this spectacle, and he used this opportunity to paint the breakup of the ice in a series of paintings. These works led to Monet's formal development of serial paintings. Monet was able to express his thoughts in many different ways by painting all the different versions of the breakup of the ice.
La Débacle à Vétheuil has different colors than most of the other ice floe paintings that Monet did. It has reds, browns, and more colors than some of the other ice floe paintings, such as the University of Michigan Museum of Art's La Débacle. That painting has a lot of blues, mauves, and whites, and gives it more of a feeling of winter. On the other hand, if you look at La Débacle à Vétheuil from Madrid, it seems as though it is about to be spring, because of the warm greens and magentas used in the painting. Since the ice was moving past so quickly, it was probably impossible for Monet to paint more than a sketch. Later, in his studio, he would finish the painting.
As bedroom wall art, the piece pairs naturally with other impressionist wall art and with warm neutrals, timber, and soft natural light.
Expect subtle, hand-made variation rather than factory uniformity. Each fine art canvas is painted with oils, allowed to cure properly, and inspected before it is approved for shipment.
Wondering where fine art oil painting looks best? Try a bedroom mantel, a dining room sideboard, or a hallway gallery wall. The fine art subject reads clearly from a distance and rewards close viewing up near.
In short: La Debacle a Vetheuil - Claude Monet - Oil Painting Wall Decor combines an impressionist composition, a 100% hand painted oil painting process, and the flexibility of made-to-order canvas sizes — a dependable choice for fine art oil painting and bedroom wall art.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 40 in | $75.48 |
| 24 X 48 in | $107.98 |
| 30 X 60 in | $164.48 |
| 36 X 72 in | $198.48 |
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