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...Manhattanites who turned out at the opening of a brand-new gallery last week, the big show was not the paintings (a 100-year retrospective from Manet and Monet to Picasso and Pollock), but the gallery itself-a gleaming interior of sculptured white plaster, marble and aluminum in which walls seemed to flow, stairs to float. Ceilings billowed to house controlled artificial light, and even the floor, covered with a luxurious wool carpeting, at one point suddenly lapped over on itself to become a bench...
...Monet once said that he wished he had been born blind and then suddenly gained sight so that he would begin to paint without knowing what the objects were...
Hailing the new trend, half a dozen U.S. museums this year are featuring their newly acquired Monet paintings. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has hung a show of its whole collection of 33 Monet oils to honor its recently purchased, nonimpres-sionist La Japonaise (see overleaf), Monet's genuine tribute to Japanese art, for which his first wife, Camille, posed. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art is showing its third late-Monet purchase, Pond and Covered Bridge (opposite). In April the Art Institute of Chicago will celebrate its newly purchased Iris at the Side...
...Abstract Impressionism." The Monet revival is one case where painters led the critics. Young artists, moving from the geometric form toward nature, suddenly found an inspiring kind of abstraction in Monet's late work. Museum of Modern Art Director Alfred Barr admits that he once thought Monet "just a bad example." today has deep admiration for the vigor of his brushwork, his near-abstract paintings of nature, and his suggestive ambiguity of object and reflection.* Putting the final stamp of approval on Monet for the avant-garde is Manhattan Critic Clement Greenberg, who in praising Monet's "free...
...Sistine Chapel." French Painter Andre Massno started the bandwagon five years ago by boldly calling Monet's Water Lily panels in Paris' Orangerie "the Sistine Chapel of impressionism." Collector Walter Chrysler Jr. and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art both climbed aboard, bought late-Monet paintings (TIME, Jan. 30, 1956). The Monet boom resounded even louder with a show of his late works last summer by Paris Art Dealer Katia Granoff, who bought from Monet's son, Michel, the paintings that for decades had been stored at Monet's Giverny studio (where several collected shrapnel...