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Claude Monet ’s Secret Garden


Vancouver Art Gallery 
June 24 to October 1, 2017

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden presents thirty-eight paintings spanning the career of one of the most important figures in Western art, focusing on the phenomenal body of work produced in Giverny, a small village in northern France where Monet resided from 1883 to the end of his life in 1926. A  creative endeavor in their own right, the gardens that Monet designed and cultivated in Giverny became the central inspiration of his art. Its waterlilies — populated with exotic strains from as far as South America and the Middle East — weeping willows and the famed Japanese bridge endure as some of the  most iconic imagery in art.

These audaciously expressive works represent the summation of Monet’s lifelong dialogue with nature that guided him into radically new territories of  painting. “Monet’s  unique vision, remarkable output and reputation as an intrepid documenter of nature gave  full expression to modern life in France. We are proud to bring to Vancouver these pioneering artworks drawn from the unparalleled collection  of the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. They trace  the arc of a career that spanned over sixty years and that continually overturned conventions to  experiment with new ways of rendering the world,” says Gallery Director, Kathleen S. Bartels. “We welcome audiences to immerse themselves in the extraordinary and innovative vision that  transformed European painting and paved the way for avant garde modernist art movements in the 20th  century.”  

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden maps out Monet’s career beginning in the late nineteenth century during his involvement with the Impressionist group of French painters.



Monet’s 1872 painting Impression, Sunrise gave the movement its name and encapsulates its insistence on the primacy of immediate visual perception. The Impressionists cast off historical subject matter and turned to the world around them. Their art gave expression to modern life in France, a country rapidly altered by industrialization and urbanization in their time.  

“This sensation of an ever-changing world reverberates through Monet’s art. Together with the other Impressionists, Monet spearheaded a radically new approach to painting,” says  Ian M. Thom, Senior Curator – Historical. “In Monet’s art, technical innovations arose from the desire to find a means of  expressing his individual perceptions of the world; and above all it was the experience of nature that  was the driving catalyst of his painting.”

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden also surveys the diversity of subjects in his art, from the portrayal of modern life in his early figure studies to the inventive treatment of light in his scenes of the Parisian countryside and views of the River Thames. These works attest to Monet’s dedicated experimentation and novel approach to painting, which sought to capture the fleeting appearances and colors conjured by variable light with unique sensitivity.  

Collaboratively organized by the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris and the Vancouver Art Gallery, this exhibition is curated by Marianne Mathieu, Deputy Director of the Musée Marmottan Monet, responsible for Collections and Communication; and Ian M. Thom, Senior Curator – Historical at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

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Claude Monet
Les Roses, 1925–26
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press




Claude Monet
Nymphéas, 1903
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press




Claude Monet
En promenade près d’Argenteuil, 1875
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press




Claude Monet
Nymphéas, 1916–19
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press




Claude Monet
Le Train dans la neige. La Locomotive,
1875
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press




Claude Monet
Londres. Le Parlement. Reflets sur la
Tamise, 1905
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press




Claude Monet
Sur la plage de Trouville, 1870–71
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press




Claude Monet
Glycines, 1919–21
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press




Claude Monet
Champ d’iris jaunes à Giverny, 1887
oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo: © Bridgeman Giraudon/Press

 

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