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Gardener's House at Antibes, 1888. During the winter of 1888, Monet visited Antibes in southern France. Under the Mediterranean sun his colours became lighter and brighter, and his paint surfaces more thickly impastoed. "What I bring back from here," he wrote, "will be sweetness itself, white, pink, and blue, all enveloped in a magical air." The brilliant colours -- warm pinks, corals, cool greens, and blues -- embody the sun-soaked atmosphere of the Mediterranean coast.