Val-Saint-Nicolas, near Dieppe (Morning)  1897

For Duncan Phillips, who often acquired paintings that were representative of the artist’s technique, [i]Val-Saint-Nicolas, near Dieppe (Morning)[/i] was a perfect choice for a landscape by Claude Monet, where all of the “individualities of contour… (are) lost in the ambience of light.” Phillips had searched for such a work for many years. He had purchased and eventually s...