Water-Lily Pond, 1899
Oil on canvas, 89 x 92 cm
© The National Gallery London
Photo courtesy of Kunsthaus Zurich
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Monet’s Garden
SWITZERLAND
ZURICH • Kunsthaus Zurich • Ongoing
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Claude Monet's (1840–1926)best known garden was his extensive parkland – a good two and a half acres – in Giverny. For over three decades this renowned garden provided ideas and motifs for hundreds of works and series, including his famous Water-Lilies.
This exhibition explores the aesthetic role played by this natural, impressionist scenario in the development and unfolding of Monet’s oeuvre as a whole; at the same time it also examines the organisational and economic implications of this garden.
Seventy paintings are on show, from early Impressionist works from the 1870s to the monumental Grandes Décorations - the late Water-Lily paintings. Major works from European and American museums are shown side-by-side with rarely seen masterpieces from private Swiss collections
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