Monet's last works are eight monumental curved panels specifically designed for the orangery in Paris, one of the greatest artistic achievements of early 20th-century painting.
A clenched socialist fist of resistance rising from the pile of bodies appears in several early sketches, but this thought fades and disappears from the final painting.
And she was reading a wonderful book by Helen Vendler at the time about poets' last works and how their final works had something revelatory to say about death.