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Claude Monet, forger of French impressionism - and artist of choice amongst college girls everywhere, will have over 60 of his masterpieces on view at the Wildenstein & Co. gallery starting tomorrow (and running through June 15th).
According to AM New York, the paintings are on loan from approximately 20 different museums and 40 private collections - making this the largest retrospective of Monet's work in New York in over 30 years. Three works from the private collections will be exhibited in public for the first time, including "Villas at Bordighera", which he painted in 1884 during a secret trip to the Mediterranean where he worked on his impressionist style.
Adding another dimension to the show, the paintings will be exhibited alongside Monet family photographs and letters (late last year some of Monet's letters were sold at auction for $1.7M). This show has been in the works for nearly two years, curated by Joseph Baillio and organized by Guy Wildenstein in honor of his late father, Daniel, who authored a number of books on the artist.
With 175 visitors allowed in at one time, be ready to wait around a bit. Proceeds from ticket sales go to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and cost $10 for adults, $5 for students.
Related: What's the tritest college dorm room art? Van Gogh's Starry Night, Monet's Waterlilies, Munch's the Scream.
Photo of Waterlilies at MoMA via onwatersedge's flickr.
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Woo,Jen! Where's your dish of cream?!
(actually, I do agree with you re the watering-down of "impressionism")
You forgot Klimt's "The Kiss" as one of the ultimate cliché dorm posters. I worked in a museum store years ago and it brewed my haterade for the waterlilies, because they were printed on every piece of tourist crap that wasn't nailed down.
Sorry for being a critic of your prose, but the use of "forger" is horrendous in this context. I understand you are trying to use it to convey the fact that he was one of Impressionism's founding creators, but in the context of art, a forger is someone who makes a fake image in the hopes of passing it off as an original by another usually famous and legitimate artist. It's called forgery. Very bad choice of words. Also, "tritest" is poor usage. It's sort of like "stupidest". You should say "most trite".
Thanks. Writing lesson over. For now.
I second "The Kiss" for the dorm room banality prize, although anything by MC Escher comes in a close second.
The Kiss, as well as the Breakfast at Tiffany's still of Audrey Hepburn (black dress, sugnlasses) looking in the window.
And then maybe the poster of different kinds of beer.