2024-10-01 15:56:24
A remarkable exhibition of two dozen views of the River Thames by Claude Monet, a series of mysterious panoramas act as visual confirmation of 19th-century French artist Paul Cézanne’s words that his fellow artist was “just an eye – but, my God, what an eye!”
As Day.Az reports with reference to the official website of the Courtauld Gallery, the exhibition brings together 21 paintings that debuted as part of a larger group of 37 works in Paris in 1904. Which have never before been the subject of an exhibition in the UK.
As the gallery notes, the exhibition “Griffin Catalyst: Monet and London. Views of the Thames” realizes Monet’s unfulfilled ambition to display this extraordinary group of paintings in London, and just 300 meters from the Savoy Hotel, where many of them were painted. Featuring paintings that Monet himself selected for his audiences in Paris and London, it will provide visitors with the unique experience of seeing an exhibition curated by Claude Monet himself and the works that he felt best represented his ambitious artistic enterprise – brought together for the first time 120 years after their first exhibition. Highlights of the exhibition include a historically significant view of Winston Churchill’s Charing Cross Bridge, which was recently restored to its former glory after being cleared of the former prime minister’s decades of cigar smoke.
This exhibition convincingly proves that it all started here. It allows you to see the moment when a great artist became a great modernist. It was the dirty light of London that helped him see beyond the visible.
The exhibition “Griffin Catalyst: Monet and London. Views of the Thames” will be on view at the Courtauld in London until 19 January 2025.