A Handprint Against the Sunset

Two Painters on their Deathbeds

Eve Bigaj
Eve Bigaj
Nov 5 · 10 min read

In the last room of a retrospective, you always think of death. These two exhibitions — Claude Monet and David Park, in adjacent museums in Fort Worth — were no exception, but it was as a duet that the two shows sung me the saddest requiem.

Both artists completed their most ambitious and monumental work near the end of their lives…

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Eve Bigaj

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grad student, art lover, globe trotter

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