Monday, July 03, 2023

Wonderful sounding exhibit of the work of Monet in Monaco

From The Art Newspaper "In December 1883, Pierre-Auguste Renoir invited his friend Claude Monet to join him on a trip to explore the Mediterranean coast from Genoa to Marseilles, with a stopover in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and Monaco. For Monet it turned out to be the first of three painting campaigns on the Franco-Italian Riviera over the next five years and, argues a new blockbuster show, a pivotal point in his artistic practice. Monet in Full Light, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco, celebrates the 140th anniversary of that first trip. Conceived in collaboration with the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, it traces the 60-year arc of the artist’s career from 1860s landscapes around his native Le Havre to the 1920s water lily paintings in his Giverny garden, with a special focus on his Riviera sorties. Almost four years in the making, it will bring together nearly 100 paintings, including 44 from the Marmottan and others loaned by more than 30 private collections and museums in Europe, the US and Brazil."
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/29/sea-change-how-a-trip-to-the-riviera-with-renoir-changed-monets-painting?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=6f89b7b03f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_30_03_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-6f89b7b03f-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D