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...walls of Monet's home at Giverny, an hour outside of Paris. In the years after his death in 1926, the delicate, light-sensitive engravings were largely replaced with copies. Now the originals can be seen again, until Feb. 25, in "Claude Monet's Japanese Prints" at Paris' Marmottan Monet Museum...
Oddly, the Marmottan has not put any of Monet's Japanese prints side by side with his paintings to show the influences, even though this relatively small museum has one of the world's most important collections of his works. But if you're wondering how the prints inspired him, you need only descend one floor to the museum's main holdings. There you will see why Monet is hailed as one of art's more inventive geniuses. But you may have to look closely to discern how Japan made him that...
Monet also shared his Japanese predecessors' fascination with nature and informal scenes of everyday life: compare Monet's two girls at the beach in Les Cousines (1870), downstairs at the Marmottan, to Utagawa Toyokuni's Three Women on a Boat Lamparo Fishing (before 1825), upstairs. Monet's snowscapes, like those he did of Argenteuil, are indirect descendants of the snowy fields and mountains of Hiroshige and Hokusai. The unconventional, asymmetric "snapshot" composition favored by ukiyo-e artists became a hallmark of Impressionism: a good example is the Marmottan's La Barque (1887), in which Monet places the barque, or boat...
...guru was Gauguin. Now, the two artists are sharing the same roof, in a superb pair of exhibits at the Grand Palais that round off a blockbuster fall art season in Paris. The lineup includes Botticelli at the Musée du Luxembourg, Bazille at the Musée Marmottan Monet, and a huge Jean Cocteau retrospective at the Pompidou Center. With over 200 paintings, drawings, woodcuts, sculptures, photographs and sketches, Gauguin-Tahiti, the Atelier of the Tropics (Oct. 3-Jan. 19) offers brilliant confirmation of Gauguin's primary role in the liberation of color in modern art. From...
...haul could be resold on the open market, or even in its shadow line. With the Vermeer, resale is all but inconceivable, although famous stolen paintings do sometimes get sold: the very picture that named the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet's Impression: Rising Sun, was stolen from the Marmottan Museum in Paris by armed robbers in 1985 and is believed to be in Japan...