As his fellow Impressionists died one after the other--Pissarro in 1903 , Cezanne in 1906 , Degas in 1917 , Renoir in 1919--Monet ended up , once again , like Ishmael , at the end of Moby-Dick : Now I am the last survivor of the group , he sighed .
Monet was a painter who was most known for his abstract style .