Monet: The Late Years
On view through September 15, 2019
Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, Texas
Kimbellart.org
“Monet: The Late Years” includes more than 20 examples of the artist’s beloved water-lily paintings. The exhibition also showcases many other extraordinary and unfamiliar works from his final years, several of which will be seen for the first time in the United States. A surprising range of paintings, from traditional pictures to canvases more than six feet high to a monumental work measuring 14 feet wide, will be on view, demonstrating Monet’s continued vitality and variety as a painter. It redefines Monet as one of the most original artists of the modern age.
“In this glorious selection of paintings, we see bold methods of paint application, surprising harmonies or clashes of color and striking scale. Our visitors will encounter the radical nature of the painter’s late works,” commented Eric M. Lee, director of the Kimbell Art Museum. “I’m thrilled with the reception the show received in San Francisco—-achieving international and national media acclaim—-and I’m looking forward to seeing it here, bathed in the natural light of the Kimbell’s galleries.”
Image credits: Claude Monet, Water Lilies (Agapanthus), c. 1915–26. Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 167 3/4 in. (200 x 426.1 cm). Saint Louis Art Museum. The Steinberg Charitable Fund,134:1956
