Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Monet and the Mediterranean
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This exhibition will assemble, for the first time, some 60 of the most important paintings by Claude Monet (1840-1926) on his trips to the Italian Riviera (1884), the French Riviera (1888), and Venice (1908). Organized by the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition will demonstrate how Monet, although devoted to his home in Giverny, grew
as an artist in the powerful light and sunshine of southern Europe, significantly evolving and enriching his own pictorial boundaries. These works reveal that Monet's time spent in the Mediterranean region only further stimulated his lifelong preoccupation with capturing light in paint. Many of these paintings have never before been seen by the public nor been reproduced in color; the Brooklyn Museum of Art will be the only other venue in America to exhibit these works. Organized by the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
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