Tate Modern schedules first Monet exhibition for spring 2027
*Monet: Painting Time* is planned to bring together more than 60 paintings, including 20 Water Lilies, while Tate conservators remove yellowed varnish from a collection picture.
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Tate Modern has scheduled ‘Monet: Painting Time’ for 25 February-27 June 2027, its first exhibition focused on Claude Monet. Organised with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, the show is planned to include more than 60 paintings spanning the 1870s to the 1920s.
Tate says the exhibition will examine Monet’s treatment of time. Its proposed sequence links his returns to the same motifs with changing light and seasons, and places paintings of Paris’s Gare Saint-Lazare beside later London views to consider his response to modern transport and an industrialising landscape. This is Tate’s curatorial framing.
The planned display includes six paintings from the Grainstacks series and a grouping of 20 Water Lilies. Tate describes these as loans from collections in several countries, including Japanese institutions, rather than acquisitions for its own collection. The show is also due to include ‘Cathédrale de Rouen, effet de soleil, fin de journée’ (1892), ‘Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Sunrise)’ (1897), and London paintings including ‘Waterloo Bridge, London, at Dusk’ (1904) and ‘Charing Cross Bridge, Smoke in Fog, Impression’ (1902).
A separate strand of preparation concerns Tate’s ‘The Seine at Port-Villez’ (1894). According to ‘The Art Newspaper’, Tate conservators are removing non-original yellowed varnish from the painting. At a 16 September press briefing, Genevieve Barton, Tate Modern’s assistant curator of international art and a co-curator of the exhibition, said that removing it had revealed a luminosity not seen for decades. ‘The Art Newspaper’ did not report a published technical report or say when the treatment would be complete.
The exhibition is scheduled to close with Ange Leccia’s moving-image work ‘(D) Après Monet’ (2020), made in response to Monet’s final Water Lilies at the Musée de l’Orangerie. The announced checklist and loans may still change before the scheduled opening.
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The Art Newspaper: Tate Modern to stage its first Monet exhibition next year
