Monet Reunion in Cleveland
Rare Opportunity to View Reunited Trio of Monet Water Lilies
The Cleveland Museum of Art achieved a major coup. The museum owns one of the famous Water Lily paintings and secured the loan of the two others from the St. Louis Art Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.
This will allow art lovers the rare opportunity to view all three together.
The three will be the centerpiece for the museum’s fall exhibition, “Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse.”
The three paintings, which make a vast unified panorama of reflected light on the surface of Monet’s famous water lily pond in Giverny, France, haven’t been shown together in decades.
The exhibition is a rare chance to get the “big picture.” It’s also a demonstration of the art of collaboration, a major theme of the fall art season in Northeast Ohio.
The exhibition opens Oct. 11 and runs through Jan. 5, 2016.
Original article by Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer, on Cleveland.com. Read the complete article to learn more about this exhibit and other Cleveland happenings.
Photo of Water Lilies (Agapanthus), c. 1916-26. Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Oil on canvas; 200 x 426.1 cm. Saint Louis Art Museum, The Steinberg Charitable Fund 134:1956.
