Claude Monet
French 1840–1926
Waterlilies (Nymphéas) (1903)
oil on canvas, 73.0 x 92.0 cm
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Gift of Michel Monet, 1966 (inv. 5163)
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, © Bridgeman-Giraudon / Presse
Monet’s Garden at the National Gallery of Victoria ‘Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris’ features more than sixty works devoted to Claude Monet’s iconic garden at Giverny. National Gallery of Victoria, 10 May until 8 September 2013.]]>
Source: National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Monet’s Garden traces the evolution of these garden motifs over a period of twenty years, revealing the transition of Monet’s purely Impressionist style to the more personal pictorial idiom that he adopted in later life.
The first section of the show includes a series of paintings that Monet produced during the years the garden at Giverny was being laid out. These were created in Normandy, in the valley of the Seine, or during Monet’s travels to Norway and London. Highlights include “Field of Yellow Irises at Giverny”, 1887 and “Parliament, Reflections on the Thames”, 1900. The second section of the exhibition consists entirely of paintings representing Monet’s beautiful garden at Giverny, produced between 1897 and 1926.
The exhibition also presents a series of rarely seen late works by Monet; some of the last easel paintings created in the garden in Giverny as the artist began to lose his sight. These works represent a radical departure from Monet’s earlier style and provides visitors to the exhibition with the unique opportunity to explore a lesser known period in the artist’s life.
“’Monet’s Garden’ is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the world of Monet and the garden that became his lifelong obsession“, said NGV Director Tony Ellwood. “We are thrilled to collaborate with the Musée Marmottan, home to one of the largest collections of works by Monet in the world, to bring these masterpieces to Melbourne for the first time”.
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