Monet's odes to London's 'beautiful' smog appear in city ... that "London is the more interesting that it is harder to paint. "The fog assumes all sorts of colours; there are black, brown, yellow ...

“What I like most in London is the fog,” Monet once told an art dealer. “It’s the fog that gives London its marvelous breadth. Regular blocks become grandiose in this mysterious cloak.

As Monet himself wrote in 1900: “When I got up, I was terrified to see that there was no fog, not even a wisp of mist. I was prostrate, and could just see all my paintings done for, but ...

Claude Monet’s paintings are brought to life at this ... a mystical wind turns the windmills of Holland, a fog rolls in over London, butterflies flutter across the gardens of Giverny, and ...