Gallery to shed light on great Impressionists
STUNNING landscape paintings by two of the most important Impressionists of the last 150 years are to go on display at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts this week.
Claude Monet’s spectacular Water Lily Pond of 1898 is on loan to the Barber from the Art Institute of Chicago.
It features one of the most recognisable motifs of Impressionism – the Japanese bridge over the water lily pond in Monet’s garden at Giverny – and is one of 18 versions of the view painted in the summers of 1899 and 1900 by the artist.
An early oil painting by Henri Matisse – Landscape in Corsica, of 1898 – is on long-term loan from a private collection and also goes on display this week.
The painting is one of around 60 landscapes painted by Matisse during a visit to the Mediterranean island on his honeymoon.
The Monet will take pride of place in the Barber’s Blue Gallery from September 10 while the Matisse is on long-term loan.
The Barber Institute is on the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston campus, off Edgbaston Park Road.