The Museum of Modern Art

Monet's Water Lilies

September 13, 2009 – April 12, 2010

Claude Monet. The Japanese Footbridge [Le Pont japonais]. c. 1920-22. Oil on canvas. 35 1/4 x 45 7/8" (89.5 x 116.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Grace Rainey Rogers Fund. © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

The Museum of Modern Art presents an installation that will, for the first time since the Museum's reopening in 2004, feature the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. These include a mural-sized triptych (Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c. 1920) and a single-panel painting of the water lilies in the Japanese-style pond that Monet cultivated on his property in Giverny, France (Water Lilies, c. 1920), as well as The Japanese Footbridge (c. 1920–22) and Agapanthus (1918–19), depicting the majestic plants in the pond's vicinity.

These paintings have long held a special status with the Museum's audiences and, much like the MoMA's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, they provide a modern oasis in the center of midtown Manhattan. These works will be complemented by a few loans of closely related paintings.

This exhibit is included with CityPass. For details please visit Museum of Modern Art Web site.