Two huge black and white photos present the two characters, as intense and different as possible, in the vast, bright hall of the Louis Vuitton Foundation.
Claude Monet (1840-1926), white beard and impeccable white suit under the straw hat, has the bourgeois roundness of the painter absorbed in his
“water garden”
and his beloved painting at Giverny.
He gets up with the sun, starts the day eating an andouillette and drinking white wine, works, sleeps and starts again, says Sacha Guitry in his strong theatrical voice, this fervent friend of Monet separated from the master by 45 years.
Skinny, tall and dark like a dancer in post-war New York, her face full of shadows, Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) is her antithesis.
She poses casually in a loose sweater and trousers, cigarette in hand, like an intrepid city woman transposed to the countryside.
She is an American in Vétheuil in the French Vexin, where Monet lived from the summer of 1878 to the winter of 1881 and created his legend.
She…
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