Monet enjoyed a close relationship with other pioneering Impressionist artists, and his collection exemplifies this. Nevertheless, the museum's team of researchers managed to track down 120 works of art that could be confirmed as belonging to Monet himself. Later, the listings of Monet's collection made after his death in 1926 were destroyed in the wreckage of World War II. Monet's paintings were scattered after his death by his son, who donated some to the Musée Marmottan Monet while selling others. Nayeri at the Times reports that putting together the exhibit required a significant amount of detective work for the curators.
Other works in the exhibit show off the range of influences Monet's style drew on, from colorful ukiyo-e prints by the Japanese artists Andō Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusaia nd to starkly lit landscapes by early 19th-century painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, whom Monet saw as "the only master" among Western artists, according to Wullschlager. Monet owned 14 works by his friend Renoir, a man whose works depicting cherubic women and vibrant group scenes contrasted sharply with Monet's own predilection for depopulated still lifes.
Two Pierre-Auguste Renoir works on view at "Monet Collectionneur" show Monet's first wife, Camille, lounging on a couch and laying in vibrant green grass with their son, writes Jackie Wullschlager, chief art critic for the Financial Times. The collection provides a window into the deeply private artist's tastes and influences. On view at the Musée Marmottan Monet from September 14 until January 14, "Monet Collectionneur" ("Monet the Collector") displays 77 works purchased by Monet over the course of his lifetime. Claude Monet is one of the foremost Impressionist painters in history, but did you know the renowned French artist was also a voracious collector of art? A new exhibit in Paris reflects on the artist's personal collection of works from people who inspired him, and the painters he worked alongside, Farah Nayeri reports for the New York Times.
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