10.4225/03/59227858edda6 Janine Burke Janine Burke Monet’s “Angel”: The Artistic Partnership of Claude Monet and Blanche Hoschedé-Monet Monash University 2017 Claude Monet Grandes Décorations Visual arts Performing Arts and Creative Writing not elsewhere classified 2017-05-22 05:34:15 Journal contribution https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Monet_s_Angel_The_Artistic_Partnership_of_Claude_Monet_and_Blanche_Hosched_-Monet/5016608 Claude Monet's Grandes Décorations were his last and greatest works. How did Monet complete them? The scale is massive, so is the number of paintings. Monet was an old man, beset by infirmities that included bad eyesight and arthritis. Gone were the days when Monet set off to paint en plein air in all weathers. After the death of his wife Alice in 1911, Monet ceased to work, confiding to Rodin, that he felt ―lost, annihilated. Suddenly, in 1914, he began the Grandes Décorations.