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At Giverny, Monet's house and gardens.
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"La couleur est mon obsession quotidienne, ma joie et mon tourment."
Color is my daily obsession, my joy and torment.
When the undertaker draped Monet’s coffin with a black
shroud in sign of mourning, statesman ,Georges Clemenceau, intervened saying,
Pas de
noir pour Monet, le noir n’est pas une couleur !
Not black for Monet, black is not
a color !
He then went to the window,
unfastened the old flowered chintz curtain with colors of perwinkles, forget-me-nots, and hydrangeas to spread it instead over the coffin of his close
friend.
(as related by Alexandre Duval-Stalla in Claude Monet, Georges Clemenceau: Une histoire, deux caractères)
More on fabrics at St Tyl: The other side of fabrics: brocade vs. lampas
