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Without Durand, all of us Impressionists would have starved to death.
» When Monet uttered this chilling sentence at the end of his life, the
“battle against public taste”
, launched by his friend Paul Durand-Ruel in the 1870s, had been won for more than thirty years.
He and his colleagues finally enjoy well-deserved fame.
But the painter from Giverny has not forgotten all the harm done to his patron:
“The criticism dragged us through the mud;
but him, it’s much worse!
We wrote: “These people are crazy, but there is someone crazier than them, it’s a merchant who buys them!”
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