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Date
February 22, 2024 6:00PM
Name
From Forgotten to Famous: Monet's Late Work and How "Water Lilies" Came to Kansas City
Description
Thursday, Feb. 22 | 6–7 p.m.
Atkins Auditorium
$10 Public | $8 Members
The paintings that Claude Monet created in the last decade of his life may be beloved worldwide today, but many of his contemporaries found them chaotic. They dismissed Monet’s increasingly abstract style as the product of an aging man with failing eyesight, out of touch with the art world. Then, in the mid-1950s, American museums, collectors, and critics gained new appreciation for Monet’s late paintings and recognized them as important forerunners to the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Amidst this rediscovery, the Nelson-Atkins became one of the first museums to acquire a late Monet painting — the monumental Water Lilies — thanks in part to students at the Kansas City Art Institute, whose advocacy helped secure its fate. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Louis L. and Adelaide C. Ward Senior Curator of European Arts) and Brigid M. Boyle (Bloch Family Foundation Doctoral Fellow) invite you into this storied history, uncovering how Monet’s late works went from forgotten to famous in the span of a few decades.
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