Laura Gascoigne

Fog, tea and full English breakfasts: Monet and London, at the Courtauld, reviewed

The French impressionist was a keen Anglophile, and he loved the capital best when the South Bank's chimneys were belching out smoke

‘Waterloo Bridge, Grey Weather’, 1900, by Monet [Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY/ Scala, Florence]
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