Palm Tree at Bordighera (Palmier à Bordighera), 1884 by Claude Monet

Palm Tree at Bordighera (Palmier à Bordighera), painted by Claude Monet in 1884 captures a towering palm rising above a sunlit garden of citrus trees and flowering shrubs on the Italian Riviera. Monet spent the early months of 1884 working in Bordighera, dazzled by a Mediterranean light and exotic vegetation utterly unlike his native Normandy. His loose, feathered brushwork weaves the palm’s silvery fronds into the hazy coastal mountains and pearl-gray sky beyond.

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Date: 1884.

Palm Tree at Bordighera (Palmier à Bordighera), 1884 by Claude Monet. Mediterranean Garden Wall Art Canvas Print.