Claude Monet spent several months painting on the Italian Riviera in 1884, based in the resort town of Bordighera, where he was captivated by the intense Mediterranean light and the region's palm trees and olive groves. He described the light there as so bright it was difficult to paint, forcing him to develop a brighter, more saturated palette than he had used in northern France. The Bordighera paintings mark an important expansion in Monet's color range, feeding directly into the increasingly vivid work of his later career.
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