"In 1908, Claude Monet, the Impressionist painter who revolutionized French art history just three decades earlier, was at a creative impasse. He couldn't stop futzing over his latest "Water Lilies" paintings, and his dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, knew the latest entries in the series were a problem. Realizing that these new paintings simply didn't work, Monet delayed an exhibition of them at Durand-Ruel's Paris gallery several times before finally pulling the plug on the show, along with the "Water Lilies" series altogether."
"What changed? An elegant Brooklyn Museum exhibition provides the answer: a sojourn in Venice that allowed Monet to "see my canvases with a better eye," as he once put it in a letter to Durand-Ruel. His three-month trip to the water-logged Italian city resulted in 37 remarkable paintings, more than half of which are now assembled for this New York show, opening October 11."
Monet hit a creative impasse in 1908, repeatedly delaying and ultimately abandoning an exhibition of troubled Water Lilies paintings. A year later he returned to the series revitalized after a three-month sojourn in Venice that allowed him to "see my canvases with a better eye." The Venice trip produced 37 paintings, more than half now assembled for a Brooklyn Museum show opening October 11. Monet is better known for Rouen cathedrals, haystacks, Le Havre landscapes, and Parliament vistas, but the Venice works expand his late-period output. Curators Lisa Small and Melissa Buron paired the Venice series with Canaletto vedute and J. M. W. Turner canal paintings.
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