Acclaimed historian Ross King paints the most nuanced, riveting and humane portrait yet of Claude Monet, arguably the most famous artist of the 20th century. We have all seen - live, in photographs, on postcards - some of Claude Monet's legendary water lily paintings. Yet nobody knows the extraordinarily dramatic story behind their creation. Using letters, memoirs and other sources not employed by other biographers, and focusing on this remarkable period in the artist's life, Ross King reveals a more complex, more human, more intimate Claude Monet than has ever been portrayed. Canadian author.