Claude Monet

On 12 February 2002 a retrospective exhibition of the oeuvre of Claude Monet (1840-1926) opened in the State Hermitage (the General Staff building). The display features 45 works. The participation of fourteen museums around the world that possess significant collections of Monet's paintings has ensured the scope and comprehensiveness in the presentation of the legacy of the Famous French painter. The basis of the exhibition has been provided by two Russia collections: eight paintings from the State Hermitage and nine from the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Presented together are canvases that have already been shown in Moscow. From 1918 to 1948 were in the keeping of the Museum of New Western Art. They belonged before that to the collections of the Russian art patrons Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov. The display is enlarged by works from private German collections removed at the end of the Second World War and currently kept in the Hermitage. Further works by Claude Monet from French, British, German, Swiss and American museums make it possible to recreate the painter's great concepts and to shed some light on the secrets of his artistic method. The State Hermitage has prepared and published an illustrated catalogue raisonné for the opening of the exhibition. It was written by Albert Kostenevich, chief researcher at the museum.

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Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky at the opening of the exhibition

Albert Kostenevich, Chief Researcher at the Hermitage, giving an interview

At the exhibition

The catalogue