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09 10th, 2010| 
This is the event of the year! By organising the most important retrospective on Monet in the last thirty years, the National Galleries of the Grand Palais are going to be the busiest they have ever been. With almost 200 canvasses, some of which have never been shown before, the museum invites you to find out all about the career of this master of painting along certain thematic and chronological axes.
From his first years in the 1860s until the Water Lilies series in the Musée de l’Orangerie, you can come across the first Normandy marine atmospheres and colour landscapes of the banks of the Seine, then the famous The Luncheon on the Grass and Women in the Garden alongside indoor and outdoor scenes from the same period on loan for the first time from foreign collections.
You can also admire his still life paintings and portraits from the end of the 1890s and of course, all of the pictures he painted in his legendary garden in Giverny in which his work on the changes of the light through the seasons marked a turning point in his painting.
This retrospective will also be the opportunity to discover some of his unknown pieces of work and unexpected connections with other artists.
National Galleries at the Grand Palais
3 avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008 Paris
Access
Bus : 28, 42, 52, 72, 73, 80, 83, 93
Métro : Ligne 1 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ligne 1 – Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau
Ligne 9 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ligne 13 – Champs-Élysées – Clemenceau
Contact info
http://www.rmn.fr
