Claude Monet, a legacy of gardens

Visit the exhibition Claude Monet, a legacy of gardens

This exhibition offers a sensitive, contemporary rereading of the legacy of the master of Giverny, bringing together his work with the views of artists around the world who share a fascination for light, gardens and color. This eventful exhibition has been conceived to mark the centenary of Claude Monet's death.

Drawing on exceptional loans from the collections of the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Marmottan, the Musée de Dreux, the Musée de Saint-Étienne and the Institut du Monde Arabe, the exhibition brings Monet's works into dialogue with those of artists claiming to be his descendants. From Japan to North Africa, from Europe to North America, the exhibition reveals the universality and vitality of a heritage that has never ceased to cross borders and generations.

Monet's garden, largely reworked by himself, is in itself a painting made of living materials, a work in perpetual mutation. By immersing themselves in this recomposed nature, photographers and contemporary artists have rediscovered the key themes and characteristics of the painter's art: a passion for reality and poetic sentiment, a keen sense of the random and the elusive. Each work becomes not a show, but an enveloping environment where visitors experience new sensations, as if immersed.