Art Museum Journal

 Monet's Water Lilies at MoMA
By STAN PARCHIN
September 4, 2009

 

The focus exhibition Monet's Water Lilies in the second-floor Michael H. Dunn Gallery of the Museum of Modern Art (September 13, 2009-April 12, 2010) marks the New York debut of MoMA's four late works by the French Impressionist since the institution reopened in 2004. They were recently on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia (June 6-August 23, 2009).

 

Claude Monet, French (1840-1926). Water Lilies (1914-1926). Oil on canvas. 130.2 x 200.7 cm (51.25 x 79 in.). © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Included in the presentation are Claude Monet's iconic triptych Water Lilies (1914-26), the single panel painting Water Lilies (1914-26), The Japanese Footbridge (ca. 1920-22) and Agapanthus (1914-26). In Manhattan, MoMA's canvases are joined by two closely related works, Water Lilies (1914-26) and Water-Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows (ca. 1918), owned by and on extended loan to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. All six compositions were inspired by Monet's pond and its surroundings in Giverny, France.
 

Sources
Temkin, Ann and Nora Lawrence. Claude Monet: Water Lilies (exh. cat.). New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009.

 

Wildenstein, Daniel. Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978.