Monet

It comes from a series of paintings that Monet made during three visits to London around 1900. The work is dated 1904, though, in fact, by that point Monet hadn't been in London for three years.
He would have finished the picture back at Giverny, where his water garden was located.
The painting depicts bold flashes of sunlight emerging through fog in between the arches of Waterloo Bridge as seen from the balcony of the Savoy Hotel, where Monet stayed. Monet loved London in fog.
Without it, he said, you could see all the city's ugly buildings. But with it, London became poetic and mysterious.
Recently Monet has become fashionable again - having fallen out of favour in between the world wars, when people preferred hard-edged, abstract painting.
Today, his paintings are obvious targets for rich collectors.
But, when they were first exhibited, they felt avant-garde. Monet was an extraordinary colourist and a virtuoso with a brush. Throughout his career, he tried to find ways to translate the effects of light into colour on canvas.
Traditionally, artists believed