On May 10, the National Gallery of Victoria will open this year\u2019s highly anticipated Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Monet\u2019s Garden: The Mus\u00e9e Marmottan Monet, Paris.<\/i><\/p>\n
Exclusive to the Melbourne, this stunning exhibition will feature more than sixty works devoted to Claude Monet\u2019s iconic garden at Giverny.<\/p>\n
Monet\u2019s Garden<\/i> traces the evolution of these garden motifs over a period of twenty years, revealing the transition of Monet\u2019s purely Impressionist style to the more personal pictorial idiom that he adopted in later life.<\/p>\n
NGV Director, Tony Ellwood, said the exhibition would feature Monet\u2019s most well-known works, from a stunning suite of enormous waterlilies paintings to his iconic garden motifs, as well as some rarely seen late paintings.<\/p>\n
\u201cMonet\u2019s Garden<\/i> is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the world of Monet and the garden that became his lifelong obsession.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thrilled to collaborate with the Mus\u00e9e Marmottan, home to one of the largest collections of works by Monet in the world, to bring these masterpieces to Melbourne for the first time,\u201d said Mr Ellwood.<\/p>\n
The exhibition then takes visitors on a journey beginning with Monet\u2019s arrival in Giverny in 1883 and the first steps taken towards the creation of the garden that would serve as inspiration for the remainder of Monet\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
Monet\u2019s Garden: The Mus\u00e9e Marmottan Monet, Paris <\/i>will be on at the National Gallery of Victoria from 10 May until 8 September 2013. Admission fees apply. Tickets now on sale.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On May 10, the National Gallery of Victoria will open this year\u2019s highly anticipated Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition, Monet\u2019s Garden: The Mus\u00e9e Marmottan Monet, Paris. Exclusive to the Melbourne, this stunning exhibition will feature more than sixty works devoted to Claude Monet\u2019s iconic garden at Giverny. Monet\u2019s Garden traces the evolution of these garden motifs<\/p>\n