The nation’s first exclusive exhibition of French Impressionist painter Claude Monet’s paintings opened at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum yesterday, attracting about 500 visitors in the first two hours.
The exhibition, titled “Monet Garden,” will run until June 5. It features 32 works of art that the artist created at his garden in Giverny, France.
Most of the paintings in the exhibition are on loan from the Musee Marmottan Monet in Paris, which has the largest collection of Monet’s works in the world.
The first painting that welcomes visitors at the entrance of the Taipei exhibit is a 100cm-by-300cm painting of a water lily, crafted between 1917 and 1919 when Monet suffered from cataracts. This is also the favorite of the French museum director.
Although the organizers said it was rare for any museum in the world to display more than 30 works by Monet at any one time, visitors still expressed dissapointment that the famed painting Impression, Sunrise, which gave rise to the name of the Impressionist movement, was not on display.
At the end of the exhibition hall is a brief introduction to Monet’s life, giving visitors the opportunity to learn more about the celebrated painter.
“This is amazing. This is fabulous,” said Jaap Stoof, a retired Dutch business consultant who happened to hear about the exhibition and came to see it.
Organizers are hoping to repeat the success of another Impressionist exhibition, “Elsewhere: Gauguin,” which attracted about 130,000 visitors during its three-month run from November to last month.
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