Was there any pressing need, apart from the considerable (if unfashionable) pleasure of seeing a lot of fine pictures, for the Art Institute of Chicago to organize a major Monet retrospective, his largest exhibition to date, drawn from public and private collections all over the world?1 Over the past few years, the art of Monet and his colleagues has been probed from every possible direction. Recently, "Origins of Impressionism" studied the young Monet and his fellow New Painters in relation to both the establishment and the radical artists of their day, while the Art Institute's own brilliant "series" exhibition examined Monet's repetitions and variations of his favorite motifs. The lush survey of his late work, "Monet's Years at Giverny; was a while ago--1978--but a representative mini-Monet...

 

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