Volume 45, Number 18 · November 19, 1998
Monet Our Contemporary
By Robert L. Herbert
Monet in the 20th Century 20-December 27, 1998, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23-April 18, 1999
an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September
Monet in the 20th Century
Catalog of the exhibition by Paul Hayes Tucker, with George T.M. Shackelford, by MaryAnne Stevens, and essays by Romy Golan, by John House, by Michael Leja
Museum of Fine Arts/Yale University Press, 310 pp., $24.95 (paper)
This past summer the Frick Collection announced it had borrowed a Monet to accompany its own picture by the artist, Vétheuil, Winter (1879). That the two canvases could be treated as a special exhibition in this citadel of old masters is a token of the vast claim that Monet now has on the art-minded public. For the past two decades Monet has had a larger place in museum exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Japan than any other artist with the possible exception of Picasso. Last autumn's Monet and the Mediterranean was a huge success at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago set attendance records in 1995 with its extensive retrospective of the artist's work.[1] Now the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has turned over to Monet more room than for any previous exhibition there. In Monet in the 20th Century there are only eighty-five paintings dating from 1900 to the artist's death in 1926, but the scale of his late work, like the peacock's glory, demands space: some are nearly twenty feet wide.
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