Until 14th July 2024 Padua pays tribute to the 150th anniversary of the first exhibition in Paris that sanctioned the birth of the Impressionist movement in 1874.
The Centro Culturale Altinate | San Gaetano in Padua, in fact, dedicates a tribute to Claude Monet, the father of Impressionism.
On 15th April 1874, precisely in the gallery of photographer Félix Nadar in boulevard des Capucines 35 in Paris, an exhibition was inaugurated that would change the history of art forever.
It was an ‘independent’ exhibition, subversive for its time, with 165 works by artists belonging to the so-called ‘Anonymous Society of Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Engravers’, including the then unknown Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot. All the rest is history.
150 years later Arthemisia, together with the Municipality of Padua and the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, will give life to an exciting tale, through the exhibition of 60 masterpieces – including Water Lilies, Irises, London Landscapes and many more – enriched by spectacular rooms, many contents, videos and testimonials.
The exhibition “Monet. Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris‘, is curated by Sylvie Carlier, general curator of the Musée Marmottan Monet, with the co-curatorship of art historian Marianne Mathieu and Musée Marmottan Monet curatorial assistant Aurélie Gavoille.
The works on display are those conserved at the Musée Marmottan Monet, which holds the French artist’s largest and most important collection of paintings, the result of a generous donation made by his son Michel in 1966.
The exhibition at the Centro Culturale Altinate | San Gaetano – which presents sixty works that include masterpieces by Monet, but also works by Delacroix, Boudin, Jongkind, Renoir and Rodin, who were his masters and friends – embraces the ambition of the Musée Marmottan Monet, that is to make the artist’s work known and accessible to the largest possible number of people and is particularly significant as it represents the first exhibition of works from the Parisian institution in the city of Padua.
The exhibition reviews the stages of the painter’s artistic research: from the beginning of his career on the Normandy coast, through his travels to Holland, Norway and London, to his final work, the Water Lilies, paintings that the painter jealously preserved in his family home in Giverny, until his death.
This is an extraordinary opportunity to immerse oneself in Monet’s luxuriant creativity and capture his sources of inspiration, transported into his intimate world.
For more information visit www.arthemisia.it.
CREDITS
Cover: Claude Monet (1840-1926) Glicini, 1919-1920. Olio su tela, 100×300 cm, Parigi, Musée Marmottan Monet, lascito Michel Monet, 1966. Inv. 5124 © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo 1: Claude Monet (1840-1926) Il ponte giapponese, 1918-1919 circa. Olio su tela, 74×92 cm, Parigi, Musée Marmottan Monet, lascito Michel Monet, 1966. Inv. 5177 © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo 2: Claude Monet (1840-1926) Ninfee, 1916-1919 circa. Olio su tela, 130×152 cm, Parigi, Musée Marmottan Monet, lascito Michel Monet, 1966. Inv. 5098 © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo 3: Claude Monet (1840-1926) Ninfee e agapanti, 1914-1917 circa. Olio su tela, 140×120 cm, Parigi, Musée Marmottan Monet, lascito Michel Monet, 1966. Inv. 5084 © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo 4: Claude Monet (1840-1926) Londra. Il Parlamento. Riflessi sul Tamigi, 1905. Olio su tela, 81,5×92 cm, Parigi, Musée Marmottan Monet, lascito Michel Monet, 1966. Inv. 5007 © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo 5: Claude Monet (1840-1926) Vétheuil nella nebbia, 1879. Olio su tela, 60×71 cm, Parigi, Musée Marmottan Monet, lascito Michel Monet, 1966. Inv. 5024 © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo 6: Claude Monet (1840-1926) Il treno nella neve. La locomotiva, 1875. Olio su tela, 59×78 cm, Parigi, Musée Marmottan Monet, dono Eugène e Victorine Donop de Monchy, 1940. Inv. 4017 © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Photo 7: Claude Monet (1840-1926) Barche nel porto di Honfleur, 1917. Olio su tela, 50×61 cm, Parigi, Musée Marmottan Monet, lascito Michel Monet, 1966. Inv. 5022 © Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
