Claude Monet, gardens as a legacy

Conceived as a dialogue between painting and photography, the exhibition explores how the garden at Giverny—designed by Monet as a work of art in itself—has profoundly influenced the vision of artists worldwide. While the painter invented, on the edge of abstraction, a new relationship with color, light, and space, this motif became, in the 20th and 21st centuries, a privileged field of exploration for painters and photographers, who embraced it as a visual and sensory laboratory.

Drawing on exceptional loans, the exhibition brings together major works by Claude Monet with those of artists who, each in their own way, claim his legacy. From Europe to Japan, from North Africa to North America, the exhibition reveals the universality and vitality of a heritage that has continually transcended borders and generations.