Study of Rocks; Creuse
Study of Rocks; Creuse: 'Le Bloc' is an 1889 painting by Claude Monet. It is an oil on canvas and measures 72.4 x 91.4 cm.

Monet gave the painting to Georges Clemenceau in 1899 according to Daniel Wildenstein, though Clemenceau is cited as the owner in an 1891 exhibition catalogue. Clemenceau nicknamed the painting 'Le Bloc' ('The Rock'). The painting was one of fourteen that were exhibited in a joint exhibition with Auguste Rodin at Georges Petit's Parisian gallery in June 1889.

Paul Hayes Tucker, the curator of the 1990 exhibition "Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings", at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, described the painting as "majestic".

The painting was reproduced in a copy by the British artist Gerald Kelly in 1939. Kelly's version is now in a private collection.

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother bought the painting for £2,000 in 1949 (); it was worth an estimated £15 million at the time of her death in 2002.
The dramatist and performer Noël Coward was also an amateur artist and arranged a visit to Clarence House specially to see "Study of Rocks".
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Claude Monet
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oil on canvas
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Georges Clemenceau
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Daniel Wildenstein
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Auguste Rodin
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Georges Petit
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Museum of Fine Arts
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Gerald Kelly
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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
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Noël Coward
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Clarence House
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Study of Rocks; Creuse
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