Sunset Painting Claude Monet Size:40"x20" The painting carries the spirit

The painting carries the spirit of rural escape and the gentle rhythm of country living

Its copper

comforting innocence

leather and earthenware accents

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

Sunset Painting Claude Monet Size:40"x20" The painting carries the spiritThis 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