Next, the exhibition enters the period between 19, when Monet returned to painting anew after a hiatus in work prompted by the loss of his second wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. Paintings from the late 1890s and early 1900s include depictions of the Japanese footbridge, the newly created lily pond and the artist’s house as seen from the rose garden-all sources of inspiration that he would revisit in his late career. Thematically arranged, the exhibition opens with a prologue concentrating on scenery from Monet’s outdoor studio at Giverny. Far removed from his earlier, more representational production, the artist’s late paintings close in on a stylistic threshold into abstraction. The result was a remarkable new body of work with increasingly feverish, dramatic brushwork. The complex surfaces of his canvases reveal layers of activity spread out over the course of days, months, and years. His worsening vision and a new ambition to paint on a large scale stimulated fundamental changes in the tonality and intensity of his palette, toward vivid color combinations and broader, more apparent, application of paint. Monet: The Late Years focuses on the period when the artist, his life marked by personal loss, deteriorating eyesight, and the threat of surrounding war, remained close to home to paint the varied elements of his garden at Giverny. Show image related to Monet, "The Artist's House Seen from the Rose Garden" 1922-24, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet Paris France Show image related to Monet, "The Japanese Bridge" 1922–24, oil on canvas, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Show image related to Monet, "Water Lilies and Agapanthus" 1914-17, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Show image related to Monet, "Water Lily Pond" 1917-22, oil on canvas, The Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Mrs. Show image related to Monet, "Water Lilies" 1916–1919, oil on canvas, Lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Louise Reinhardt Smith, 1983 (1983.532) Show image related to Monet, "Corner of the Water-Lily Pond," 1918–19. Show image related to Monet, "Path under the Rose Arches" Giverny, 1918–1924, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Michel Monet Bequest, 1966, inv. Show image related to Monet, "Water Lilies" 1922, oil on canvas, Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, 19811.54 Show image related to Monet, "Water Lilies" 1914-1917, oil on canvas, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum purchase, Mildred Anne Williams Collection, 1973.3 Show image related to Monet, "Water Lilies" 1915-26, oil on canvas, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Steinberg Charitable Fund 134:1956 Show image related to Monet, "Yellow Irises" 1914–17, oil on canvas, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Show image related to Monet, "Path under the Rose Arches," Giverny, 1918–1924, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Michel Monet Bequest, 1966, inv. Show image related to Monet, "Yellow Irises" 1917–19, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Show image related to Monet, "Wisteria" 1916–1919, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet, Michel Monet Bequest, 1966, inv. Show image related to Monet, "Weeping Willow" 1918–1919, oil on canvas, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Show image related to Monet, "The Artist's House Seen from the Rose Garden" 1922-24, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris France
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