Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007
Cunning Claude Monet
By Robert L. Herbert
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings
Catalog of the exhibition by James A. Ganz and Richard Kendall
an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 17–June 10, 2007, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, June 24–September 16, 2007
Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press, 313 pp., $65.00
Claude Monet and His Posterity
Catalog of the exhibition by Serge Lemoine, Shuji Takashina, Akiko Mabuchi, and Yusuka Minami
an exhibition at the National Art Center, Tokyo, April 7–July 2, 2007
Yomiuri Shimbun, 278 pp.
Monet in Normandy
Catalog of the exhibition by Heather Lemonedes, Lynn Federle Orr, and David Steel, with essays by Richard Brettell
an exhibition at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, June 17–September 17, 2006, the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, October 15, 2006– January 14, 2007, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 18–May 20, 2007
Rizzoli, 192 pp., $45.00
Claude Monet (1840–1926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Joseph Baillio
an exhibition at Wildenstein & Co., New York, April 27–June 15, 2007
344 pp., $85.00 (paper)
In May this year, art-minded travelers could have seen four Monet exhibitions on successive days, going from the Wildenstein gallery in New York to the Cleveland Museum of Art, to London's Royal Academy of Arts, and then to Tokyo's new National Art Center. That four shows of Monet's work could be mounted at the same time is possible because he was so remarkably productive: 2,044 oils, 515 drawings, and 108 pastels have been cataloged.[1] Each institution had good choices with little need to compromise. Even Picasso, who was equally productive, has not matched the number of Monet's recent appearances before the public. In the eight years beginning in 2000, in the US, Europe, Japan, and Australia, Monet has been given fourteen solo exhibitions. He's also had a prominent place in twenty-four other exhibitions, including several in which his name appears first (such as 'Monet and Japan'). Furthermore, many of these exhibitions traveled to two or more cities, so his geographical exposure has been extensive.
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