Sku: YY1015Artist: Claude MonetTitle: Water Lillies (Nympheas)Year: 1978Signed: NoMedium: Offset LithographPaper Size: 29 x 49 inches ( 74 x 124 cm )Image Size: 23.5 x 47.75 inches ( 60 x 121 cm )Edition Size: UnknownFramed: No: Inquire with our experts for framing suggestions.Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handlingAdditional Details: Monet’s Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978, was widely regarded as one of the earliest true museum blockbusters. At a time when large-scale single-artist exhibitions were rare, the Met brought together an unprecedented concentration of Monet’s Giverny-period masterpieces, many drawn from international lenders and rarely seen together. The exhibition fundamentally reshaped public and scholarly understanding of Monet’s later work, presenting it not as a coda to Impressionism but as a bold, forward-looking body of work that anticipated modern abstraction. Its scale, ambition, and overwhelming public response marked a turning point in museum exhibition history and helped establish the model for the blockbuster art exhibitions that followed in subsequent decades.
