
Bordighera
<p>Early in 1884 Claude Monet traveled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera near the border between Italy and France, for a working visit of three weeks that turned into nearly three months. In a letter to sculptor <a href="https://www-2018.artic.edu/artists/36418">Auguste Rodin</a> describing his efforts to capture the brilliant Mediterranean light, Monet declared that he was “fencing, wrestling, with the sun.” In other letters he complained of the impossibility of finding a suitable subject amid the region’s abundant vegetation. In this sun-drenched composition painted from a hilltop vantage point, the sea is barely visible through the interlaced trunks of local pine trees.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1884
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65 × 80.8 cm (25 5/8 × 31 13/16 in.); Framed: 80.4 × 96.6 × 8.3 cm (31 5/8 × 38 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Claude Monet
Artist

Painting
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Record
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- Claude Monet
- Year
- 1884
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 65 × 80.8 cm (25 5/8 × 31 13/16 in.); Framed: 80.4 × 96.6 × 8.3 cm (31 5/8 × 38 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1884-013946
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





