Monet-Mitchell at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Published on 02 November 2022, by Annick Colonna-Césari

This is the first time that a confrontation between the art of Joan Mitchell, a figure of American abstract expressionism, and the works of the "last" Monet, that of the Water Lilies, has been organized.

Claude Monet (1840-1926), Water Lilies, 1916-1919, oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm (78.7... Monet-Mitchell at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Claude Monet (1840-1926), Water Lilies, 1916-1919, oil on canvas, 200 x 180 cm (78.7 x 70.9 in).
© MUSEE MARMOTTAN MONET, PARIS

The American would probably have disapproved of this idea: she refused any comparison with her predecessor, who died in 1926 when she was one year old. However, she had taken up residence in 1968 in Vétheuil in a house next to the one where the impressionist master had lived…

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