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When did Claude Monet receive treatment for his cataracts?
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Claude Monet
Self-Portrait with a Beret, oil on canvas by Claude Monet, 1886; in a private collection.
Claude Monet received effective treatment for his cataracts in 1923.1
His eyesight had begun to deteriorate in 1908 as the cataracts formed, which significantly impacted his vision and influenced the color palette and abstract style of his later works, such as those depicting his garden at Giverny.1