Immersion in Monet's monumental masterpiece
This museum, housed in what was once a greenhouse for the orange trees of the Tuileries Palace, is renowned as the permanent site of Claude Monet’s eight monumental “Water Lilies” paintings. The artist promised the works to France as a symbol of peace following the Armistice of 1918. Near-abstract meditations on his garden at Giverny, they have been installed since 1927 in a pair of elegant oval galleries evoking the symbol of infinity. Monet’s late masterworks are joined by nearly 150 impressionist and post-impressionist paintings from the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection. Featuring works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau and Amedeo Modigliani, the collection was largely assembled by the avant-garde art dealer Paul Guillaume and was acquired from his widow, Domenica Walter, in 1959 and 1963.
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