"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

07 April 2011

Intended.


The exhibit, which opens Apr. 8, reunites a Monet triptych, whose panels have long since been acquired by three museums, for the first time in three decades. The 14-feet wide, 6-feet-tall paintings are hung together, in a panorama, as Monet intended, not separated by space and not surrounded by other paintings -- similarly, as I recall, to the way another water lillies series is hung at l'Orangerie in Paris (and, maybe an old installation at the Museum of Modern Art?).

Read the rest here.

Monet, Reflections of Clouds on the Water Lily Pond (left panel), 1920

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