Exhibition entry
Visitors looking at J.M.W. Turner's Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves 1846, Tate and Stormy Sea with Dolphins c.1835-40, Tate
Exhibition entry
7 June – 1 September 2019, National Gallery of Australia
Organised by the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris in association with the National Gallery of Australia and Art Exhibitions Australia
Finalising the exhibition layout with the exhibition Curator Marianne Mathieu, Scientific Director of the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Displayed together with paintings by his Impressionist contemporaries, including Sisley and Morisot, this exhibition showed the development of one of the world’s most famous artists and revealed the birth of the Impressionist movement —a defining moment in art history.
The exhibition was curated by Marianne Mathieu, Scientific Director of the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, and included loans from international lenders such as the Tate and the Yale Center for British Art, plus important loans from French national collections, Australian and New Zealand institutions, and Private lenders, including the Kerry Stokes Collection in Perth, which helped shape the exhibition story.
This exhibition from the impressionist master featured 40 world-famous paintings from the Musée Marmottan, including his 1872 seminal work Impression, Sunrise that coined the name of the popular 'Impressionism' art movement.
Alongside Monet’s masterpieces were an extraordinary group of atmospheric works by JMW Turner, Whistler, Delacroix, Courbet, Boudin and others, that traced the story of the artistic influences on Monet leading up to the creation of his ground breaking painting.
Adam Worrall being interviewed at the exhibition Media launch
Developed in partnership with the Musée Marmottan Monet and Art Exhibitions Australia, Impression Sunrise, which was only available for the unusually short display period of 87 days, attracted over 120,000 visitors.