Monet Abroad: Paintings and Letters 1863-1917

跟著莫內旅行：1863–1917畫作與書信【印花布面精裝】
走訪二十處創作風景，透過約250幅畫作與逾百封書信摘錄，追尋光與色彩的足跡

從威尼斯、魯昂、埃特勒塔到昂蒂布與倫敦，走訪孕育莫內經典畫作的二十個目的地。透過約250幅重要作品、逾百封書信摘錄與珍貴手稿，探索旅途如何淬鍊他捕捉光線的技藝。搭配精美印花布面精裝，珍藏一段穿越歐洲的藝術旅程。

克勞德．莫內一生熱愛旅行。五十餘年間，他行遍歐洲，尋找值得描繪的風景，以及光線中的倒影、細微變化與通透層次。他筆下的瞬間，來自耐心而近乎執著的觀察。

從諾曼第到威尼斯，途經倫敦、布列塔尼、地中海與塞納河畔，每一段旅程都是對視覺感受的不懈追尋。作者 Florence Gentner 循著莫內的足跡，交織他的藝術創作與人生經歷，呈現二十個目的地如何深刻影響約250幅重要作品，以及他用色的演變。

書中收錄逾百封書信的摘錄、大量素描、筆記片段與畫作圖版，還原旅途中的創作情境，也讓讀者看見畫家遠離家園時的心緒。Marine Kiesel 則為每段旅程提供深入解析，帶領讀者細賞這批因旅行而生的非凡作品。

兼具藝術傳記與旅行紀事的《Monet Abroad》，以精美印花布面精裝，展現莫內的現代精神與永不滿足的好奇心——不斷走向新的地平線，尋找下一個值得落筆的風景。

Travel alongside Claude Monet to twenty destinations where he created his most famous work – including Venice, Rouen, Étretat, Antibes and London – all of which nourished his mastery of light.

Claude Monet was a lifelong traveller. For more than fifty years, he made his way through Europe, looking for remarkable scenes, reflections, nuances and transparencies of light to capture through his painting – the result of patient, obsessive observation. From Normandy to Venice, via London, Brittany, the Mediterranean and the banks of the Seine, his travels were far more than mere journeys: they were an incessant quest for visual sensations. Florence Gentner retraces his artistic and personal trajectory, showing how twenty destinations profoundly influenced some 250 of his major works, as well as the evolution of his palette.

Extracts from more than 100 letters, numerous sketches, notebook excerpts and reproductions reveal the circumstances of his journeys and convey the painter’s state of mind while he was away from home. His travel paintings constitute an exceptional body of work, enriched, for each trip, by an insightful analysis from Marine Kiesel.

Part artistic biography, part travelogue, and presented in a beautiful printed cloth hardcover binding, Monet Abroad reveals the modernity and insatiable curiosity of a painter constantly in search of new horizons and new subjects.