Monet : paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Katie Hanson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanson, Katie, author.

Contributor:

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926, artist.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926--Catalogs.

Monet, Claude.

Monet, Claude, 1840-1926.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston--Catalogs.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Painting--Massachusetts--Boston--Catalogs.

Painting.

Massachusetts--Boston.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

87 pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, [2020]

Summary:

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has one of the largest collections of the celebrated impressionist artist Claude Monet's work outside France. This book reproduces all 35 oil paintings by Monet in the MFA's permanent collection, representing nearly the full span of Monet's long career. An introductory essay presents a brief account of his acclaim in Boston during his lifetime, and entries for the 35 paintings provide an overview of his life and work. Early plein-air compositions from the 1870s, as well as Grand Canal, Venice (1908), a later example inspired by his travels abroad, mark his enduring fascination with watery surfaces, utilizing vivid color and varied brushwork to dazzling effect. A grouping of works related to his life-long appreciation for Japanese art and culture is anchored by La Japonaise (Camille Monet in Japanese Costume) (1876), a full-length portrayal of his wife Camille in a lavishly embroidered kimono. His 1875 composition Meadow with Poplars inspires another section, as its depiction of poppies, poplar trees and grain stacks foreshadows the recurrence of these themes in his painting throughout the decades to follow.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression, exhibition November 15. 2020 - February 28. 2021.

ISBN:

0878468730

9780878468737

OCLC:

1145087009