Monet’s Water Lilies and Agapanthus on display at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

A major work of Monet’s will be on display in a prestigious art gallery for the first time in the UK, writes Davina Hyde.

Monet’s Water Lilies and Agapanthus is on loan from the Musee Marmottan Monet in Paris as part of a deal with Dulwich Picture Gallery.

It will be shown alongside the monumental painting Feather as part of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s exhibition Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty.

Claude Monet, a founding figure of Impressionism, spent the last 30 years of his life depicting the lily pond in his water garden in Giverny in France.

To begin with his works were small and descriptive, but over time they became increasingly abstract and grander in scale, culminating in an epic series of water lily panoramas.

The Sackler director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Jennifer Scott, said: “Monet and Frankenthaler stood on the shoulders of giants, taking inspiration from the great artists that went before them in order to innovate.

The prospect of seeing these two masterpieces side-by-side is thrilling, especially within the context of our world-class collection of Old Master paintings.”

The exhibition will be displayed at the Dulwich Picture Gallery from September 15, 2021 to April 18, 2022 subject to change due to Covid.

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