For the first time in 30 years, Saint Louis Art Museum reunites Monet’s Water Lilies

SAINT LOUIS, MO.- For the first time in over 30 years, The Saint Louis Art Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and The Cleveland Museum of Art have collaborated to reunite the three panels of Agapanthus as the artist himself intended.  The Agapanthus triptych was inspired by Monet’s pond in his famed garden at Giverny, just west of Paris. Monet himself gave the title Agapanthus to the 42 foot triptych after the plant (also known as “African lily” or “Lily of the [...]

Monet and Abstraction Now on View at Musée Marmottan Monet

PARIS.- Co-organised by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, La Caja Madrid and the Musée Marmottan Monet, the exhibition Monet and abstraction is presented at the Musée Marmottan Monet from 17 June to 26 September 2010. Monet’s heritage continues to prompt new comparisons: in recent years, his influence on the abstract painters of the second half of the 20th century has been extensively explored. The new exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet examines this modernist legacy, bringing together forty-four Impressionist and [...]

Visitors will Observe Conservators Investigating Monet’s “Water Lilies”

KANSAS CITY, MO.- Visitors to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on June 24 and 25 and July 1 and 2 will be able to observe Museum conservation specialists as they perform various scientific examinations on Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. The examination is made possible with an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a $1 million challenge grant. The grant’s purpose is to establish an endowment to provide additional scientific expertise for research and conservation investigation on [...]

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Announces the Exhibition Monet and Abstraction

MADRID.- This coming February, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting the exhibition “Monet and Abstraction”. It offers a survey of the work of the great French Impressionist painter from an innovative perspective and one never previously employed in the context of a temporary exhibition of this scale and importance, namely the artist’s relationship with the development of abstraction in the second half of the 20th-century. From his ethereal London landscapes to the monumental depictions of his garden [...]