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...paintings in Impressionist Still Life were chosen for their quality, innovation, and cohesion, and borrowed from over fifty public and private collections worldwide. One painting, never previously shown in the United States, is Claude Monet??s (1840-1926) rare “Jar of Peaches” (1866), which depicts a jar of canned peaches and a few fresh peaches on a glossy marble surface. The painting exemplifies Monet??s obsession with surface, texture and reflection in an unusual arena for the landscape maestro. Of Monet??s two thousand catalogued works, only three percent...
...other jewels of the exhibition, equally distinct and eloquent, were painted by Monet in 1872. “Still Life with Melon” and “The Tea Set,” which hang side by side in the Gund Gallery, show Monet??s experimentation with both traditional and nontraditional still life. “Still Life with Melon” features the heavy round shapes of the melon, peaches, plates and grapes, balanced with traditional bourgeois taste. In contrast, “The Tea Set” is evidence of Japanese influence on the Impressionist...