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Monet-water lilies

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Start:: March 25
End:: June 25
Event Tags:: giverny, monet art, monet gardens, nympheas, water lilies; https://www.slam.org/exhibitions/monet-mitchell-painting-the-french-landscape/

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Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape

March 25 - June 25

Location: Saint Louis Art Museum

Offering a fresh view of two of the most experimental painters of the 20th century, Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape is the first exhibition in the United States to examine the complex dialogue between the work of the French Impressionist Claude Monet and the American Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell.

The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) exhibition explores the ways in which Monet and Mitchell engaged with the French landscape. Monet spent his final decades in rural Giverny, some 50 miles to the northwest of Paris, while, from 1968 until 1992, Mitchell lived at nearby Vétheuil, overlooking a house once inhabited by the French painter. Both artists addressed similar themes of trees, earth, water, and flowers as well as the inspiration of their own gardens. The exhibition explores the connections, both in subject matter and technique, that Mitchell shared with Monet. It also shows how her compositional formats, vibrant color, and gestural brushwork offer fascinating parallels with Monet’s.

Monet/Mitchell will present 24 paintings, 12 by each artist. Often monumental in scale and overwhelming in impact, these works highlight the fascination both painters had for expansive, panoramic formats.

The Monet paintings come primarily from the Musée Marmottan Monet, which houses the largest collection of Monet’s work in the world. The paintings by Mitchell are principally drawn from the collection of the Fondation Louis Vuitton. The exhibition will also include two major works from the Saint Louis Art Museum’s own collection: Water Lilies, by Monet, and Ici, one of Mitchell’s poignant final paintings.

Here we feature Saint Louis Art Museum’s Water Lilies along with a collection of Monet works painted in and around Giverny or featuring other gardens, from other museums.