Claude Monet and friends

Marking the close of the FranciArt cultural season in Hungary, the Museum of Fine Arts is organizing an important exhibition of the artist Claude Monet and his contemporaries in an exhibition organized by the French Institute of Budapest and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Dijon.
The exhibition presents paintings, drawings and sculptures from over 30 European and American collections; Hungary’s Museum of Fine Arts offers three Monet paintings and 40 works from its collection of drawings and reproduced graphics. The exhibition features 25 paintings by Monet, including the Gare Saint-Lazare, The London Parliament and Dutch Tulip Fields. In addition to Renoir’s remarkable portrait of his friend Claude Monet, two paintings depicting the Monet family, created by Renoir and Eduard Manet, will also be on display. The exhibition also includes paintings of Camille Pissarro, Gustave Caillebotte, Alfred Sisley and Paul Signac. Works are of the impressionist masters are divided into thematic groups (landscapes of Normandy, travels in London, The Netherlands and Venice, banks of the Seine), and focuses on illustrating the friendship between the older Monet and sculptor Auguste Rodin.

The exhibition "Claude Monet and Friends," runs from Dec. 1, 2003 to March 15, 2004, and will be presented in six newly- renovated exhibition rooms and three separated spaces on the first floor of the Museum of Fine Arts. The 250- page catalogue, published by Vince Kiadó, will be available in French and Hungarian.

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