Solo show
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Monet, painting time
30 Sep 2026 — 25 Jan 2027 at Musée de l'Orangerie
· Paris
This exhibition examines Claude Monet's groundbreaking artistic practice and his obsessive pursuit of depicting the fleeting effects of light and time. Through his celebrated series paintings—including Water Lilies, Haystacks, and Rouen Cathedral—Monet developed a unique visual language to represent the passage of time and the transformation of landscape under changing conditions. The works on display reveal how the artist used color, brushwork, and repetition to capture ephemeral moments and the essence of perception itself.
About the artist
Claude Monet
1840–1926 · Impressionism
Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter and founder of Impressionism who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of Impressionism's philosophy of expressing…
About the artist →About the venue
Musée de l'Orangerie
· Paris
The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings located in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden next to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The museum is most famous as the permanent home of eight large Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet, and also…
