There will be time until July 29 to visit the first exhibition held at the National Gallery in London last spring exclusively dedicated to Claude Monet and to the relationship with the places and architectures entitled “Monet & Architecture”. The exhibition is the first exclusively dedicated to the French artist to be opened in the English capital in over twenty years. A unique opportunity to discover a little known – or little considered – side of Monet. Along the career of the Parisian painter, from the middle of 1860 to the public exhibition of his Venetian paintings in 1912, the exhibition will investigate with a corpus of over 75 paintings the buildings that played essential, particular and unexpected roles in Monet’s works. Through the buildings, Monet has left testimony of his travels and places he has inhabited, postponing kaleidoscopic atmospheres and the play of the rays of the sun, fog and reflections, using the characteristics of the buildings to stage his “theater of lights”. Among the most interesting works on show, some of the “series” paintings by Monet: five Dutch works of travel made in the early seventies of the nineteenth century, ten paintings by Argenteuil and the Parisian suburbs of the second half of the ’70s, seven Cathedrals of Rouen dated 1892-1895, eight London paintings of the years 1899-1904, and nine Venetian paintings of 1908.

The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Monet & Architecture
9 April – 29 July 2018
The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London

Every day 10.00am – 6.00pm (last admission at 5.00pm)
Friday 10.00 am – 9.00 pm (last admission 20.15)

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/