The great Impressionist artist Claude Monet, was so poor during his lifetime that he had to appeal to fellow artists for financial support. In particular from his friend and colleague Edouard Manet (1832-1883) who was from a rich upper class Bourgeois family. There are reports that in order to secure a loan Monet, had to give - to the bank one of his now famous pictures of water lilies. We often hear, perhaps apocryphally - about the poor artist working alone in a garret, but in Monet’s case this was unfortunately true.
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