Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926).
Waterlilies and Agapanthus (Nymphèas et agapanthus),
1914-17.
Oil on canvas, 55 1/8" x 47 1/4" (140 x 120 cm.).
Collection Musée Marmottan, Paris.

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This cultural milestone coincided with the completion of major renovations of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, a 1 1/2 year project that has prepared the museum for the new millennium. The exhibition, which was organized by The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the Phoenix Art Museum, was presented at all three museums during 1999. Monet at Giverny: Masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan was made possible, in Buffalo, through the generous support of  .

Monet at Giverny featured a selection of paintings from the renowned Marmottan Museum in Paris, which owns the world's largest collection of works by Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926). This outstanding exhibition included twenty-two paintings that Monet created between 1903 and 1926 while living at Giverny, not far from Paris. He was inspired by the magnificent pond dotted with water lilies and spanned by a Japanese bridge, as well as his home, the flowers in his garden, and its rose-trellised path. In 1908, Monet confided to a friend that "these landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession." The painter explored the variations of color and the effects of light on his water-lily pond and flower garden at different seasons of the year and hours of the day. In the process, he produced incredibly modern color effects that heralded the advent of Abstract Expressionism.

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