Tomorrow sees the opening of a stunning collection of Monet’s masterpieces on show at NGV International. Exclusive to Melbourne, Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris is this year’s Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, and is the largest collection of works by Monet ever to come to Australia.
Renowned as the ‘father of French Impressionism’, Monet’s depictions of his lily and flower gardens in the rural property at Giverny, northern France, are iconic and momentous works that are sure to astound.
Featuring more than sixty works devoted to Monet’s garden, the exhibition explores the evolution of his purely Impressionist style to the more personal pictorial idiom that he adopted in later life, by tracing the transformation of his garden motifs over a twenty year period of his life.
As an exciting addition to the paintings, the exhibition also includes an immersive film experience, showing footage from the garden at Giverny as it is today, giving a further insight into his personal life and inspirations.
Tickets on sale now: Adult $26 | Child $10 | Concession $22.50.
National Gallery of Victoria
10 May to 8 September, 2013
Melbourne
Image:
Claude Monet, French 1840–1926, Waterlilies (Nymphéas) (1903), oil on canvas, 73.0 x 92.0 cm
Courtesy Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, Gift of Michel Monet, 1966 (inv. 5163)
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, © Bridgeman-Giraudon / Presse
