Exclusive to Melbourne, ‘Monet’s Garden’ features more than sixty works devoted to Claude Monet’s iconic garden at Giverny. Renowned as the ‘father of French Impressionism’, Monet was inspired by his direct experiences of nature, culminating in the ravishing depictions of his lily and flower gardens in the rural property at Giverny, northern France, that became his lifelong obsession.
‘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.
NGV International
10 May to 8 September, 2013
Melbourne
Waterlilies (Nymphéas), 1916–19, oil on canvas, 150 x 197cm
Courtesy the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris; Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, and Bridgeman-Giraudon/Presse
